“Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.”

“This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.”

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer

“Those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach, teach gym.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.”

Patrick Rothfuss (1973) American fantasy writer

“Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul. Because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

“We of the Shroud tend to believe in teaching those things we know we can teach, and in affairs of the heart—or gonads—there are no real experts. Love, like zen, cannot be learned, only felt.”

Steve Perry book The Man Who Never Missed

“God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

“Seek Knowledge and adorn it with forbearance and dignity. Be humble to those whom you teach and to those from whom you learn. Don't be tyrannical in your teaching conduct, for you will forfeit that to which you are entitled to (the reward) on account of it.”

Ja'far al-Sadiq (702–765) Muslim religious person

“In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.”

Phil Collins (1951) English musician, songwriter and actor

“And if those children are unresponsive, maybe you can't teach them yet, but you can love them. And if you love them today, maybe you can teach them tomorrow.”

Jeffrey R. Holland (1940) Mormon leader