Teaching Quotes
2884 Teaching quotes by 1777 unique authors
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There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience,…
— Bram Stoker
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Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of…
— Thomas Szasz
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.
— Shunryu Suzuki
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The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has…
— Radhanath Swami
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A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
— Thomas Szasz
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I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
— Twyla Tharp
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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was…
— Twyla Tharp
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The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
— Alvin Toffler
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Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are…
— Eckhart Tolle
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
— Lily Tomlin
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As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others…
— John Travolta
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
— G. M. Trevelyan
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I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
— Calvin Trillin
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If you can't convince them, confuse them.
— Harry S. Truman
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I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching…
— Harry S. Truman
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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
— Mark Twain
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The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
— Mark Twain
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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
— Mark Twain
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I'm focusing on healing lives and teaching people that they can heal - giving them tools to heal.
— Iyanla Vanzant
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I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the…
— Jesse Ventura
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Learning never exhausts the mind.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
— Alice Walker
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The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there's no way…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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