Teaching Quotes

2884 Teaching quotes by 1777 unique authors

In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our… — Sharon Salzberg
In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and our wishing the sitting would end,… — Sharon Salzberg
We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born. — Carl Sandburg
To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away. — Arthur Schopenhauer
I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession. — Charles Schumer
I want to attract the best people into teaching. — Charles Schumer
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. — John Sculley
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. — Dr. Seuss
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. — William Shakespeare
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. — George Bernard Shaw
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. — George Bernard Shaw
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. — George Bernard Shaw
The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his… — Sidney Sheldon
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. — B.F. Skinner
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. — B.F. Skinner
We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales. — Yakov Smirnoff
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a… — Thomas Sowell
Education has for its object the formation of character. — Herbert Spencer
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. — Charles Spurgeon
If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when… — Charles Stanley
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter. — Wallace Stegner
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great… — John Steinbeck
There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion. — Cat Stevens

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