Quotes about teaching
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“If you make my children, make any child, feel bad for who they are, I will teach you why people fear mama grizzlies more than papa grizzlies.”

Patricia Briggs book Dead Heat

Source: Dead Heat

Children, People, Fear, Feeling

“Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.”

Gordon Korman (1963) Canadian American children's writer

Feeling

“To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

Victory

“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

Dreams

“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”

Jacques Barzun (1907–2012) Historian

Teacher in America (1945)

Art, Teachers' Day

“I have sinned enough against the world. Teaching magic to a kender would ensure my damnation. —Raistlin Majere”

Margaret Weis book Dragons of Summer Flame

Source: Dragons of Summer Flame

World

“The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

Suffering

“A parent is inexcusable who does not personally teach her child to think.”

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

Source: The Signature of All Things

Thinking, Parent, Personality

“As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.”

Carter G. Woodson book The Mis-Education of the Negro

Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro

Change

“We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

“Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

Source: The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Learning, Time

“I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers…”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

People, Imagination, Question

“Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Learning, Teachers

“I’ve learned that everything happens for a reason,” the yogi Krishnan told him. “Every event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson… Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.”

Robin S. Sharma book The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Source: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Learning, Teachers, Past

“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Pearls of Wisdom

Soul, Teachers, Faith

“If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

“if you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself”

Meg Cabot book Darkest Hour

Source: Darkest Hour

Fish, Wise

“Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?"

"Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.”

Roger Zelazny Lord of Light

Source: Lord of Light

World, Sea

“Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.”

Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, writer

Fish

“I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.”

Walter Scott book Ivanhoe

Source: Ivanhoe

Men, Freedom

“I'll teach you to kick me…'
You don't need to teach me--I already know how!”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“Suddenly it was obvious to Connor why they don't teach it. Once education was restructured and corporatized, they didn't want kids knowing how close they came to toppling the government. They didn't want kids to know how much power they really had.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: UnWholly

Education

“That was the message. For me, alone among mortals, the gods send their messenger to tell me to stop whining. That’ll teach me to go hide in a temple.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia

Source: The Queen of Attolia

God

“I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Love, Children

“Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl.
'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything.
Ever.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977) Nigerian writer

Source: Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Girl, Idea

“Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

God

“[Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively]
"Don't they teach you anything in your schools?"
"Not about."
"Pity. I suppose that's what comes of your main education flowing from Google.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Feast of Fools

Education, School

“Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.”

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

Source: The Devil's Dictionary and Other Works

Life, Christ

“Everything in the gospel teaches us that we can change if we need to, that we can be helped if we truly want it, that we can be made whole, whatever the problems of the past.”

Jeffrey R. Holland (1940) Mormon leader

Source: Created for Greater Things

Problem, Change, Past, Help

“I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Men

“other people maay be there to help us, teach us, guide us aolng our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours”

Melody Beattie (1948) American writer

People, Learning, Help

“I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and aid us in becoming more truly human.”

Jean Vanier (1928–2019) Canadian humanitarian

Source: Becoming Human

Life

“But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.”

Umberto Eco book The Island of the Day Before

Source: The Island of the Day Before

World

“You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Source: Attributed to Parker after her death, by Robert E. Drennan The Algonquin Wits (1968), p. 124. However the same quip appears anonymously fifteen years earlier, in the trade journal Sales Management (Chicago: Dartnell Corp., 1918-75), vol. 70 (Survey of Buying Power, 1953), p. 80: "Marxism never changes. You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks."

“Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.”

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

Death

“One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.”

William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads

The Tables Turned, st. 6 (1798).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

Evil

“Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach.”

Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism

Source: An Essay on Criticism

Music

“I can't drive."
"I'm going to teach you," he'd said confidently.
At the end of the lesson, he'd declared her the most aggressive and dangerous driver he'd ever encountered.
Which meant… number one! (Sabine)”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Kiss of a Demon King

Confidence

“The years teach much which the days never know.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book Experience

1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience

“The best reason for a knitter to marry is that you can't teach the cat to be impressed when you finish a lace scarf.”

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (1968) Canadian writer

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

Cats

“Dear God, Tatiana prayed in bed that night, turning to the wall and pulling the white sheet and the thin brown blanket over herself. If You are there somewhere, please teach me how to hide what I never knew how to show.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

God, Night

“It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”

Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011) British-American actress

Source: A Wreath of Roses

Time, Waiting, Patience

“When one teaches, two learn.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

Learning

“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

Teachers

“If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.”

Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker

Source: 7 habits Family Collection

Children

“Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

People, Feeling, Strong

“Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.”

Jeffrey Pfeffer (1946) American academic

People, World, Hell, Question

“What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.”

Joseph Chilton Pearce (1926–2016) American writer

Source: Teaching Children to Love: 80 Games and Fun Activities for Raising Balanced Children in an Unbalanced World

Children

“I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.”

Sharon M. Draper (1948) American children's writer

Dreams, Learning, Reading

“Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Life, Back To Work

“Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.”

Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

Religion, Childhood

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”

E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist

“The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

Way, Learning, Success

“I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.”

Helen Keller book The Story of My Life

Source: The Story of My Life

Men, Knowledge, Reading

“Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.”

Raymond E. Feist book Rise of a Merchant Prince

Source: Rise of a Merchant Prince

Personality

“Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin to rust. Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.”

Gretel Ehrlich (1946) American writer

Source: The Solace of Open Spaces

Death, Autumn, Water, Season

“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.”

Robert Benchley (1889–1945) American comedian

"Your Boy and His Dog," Liberty magazine, (30 July 1932) <br class="br">Also published in Chips Off the Old Benchley http://books.google.com/books?id=1-gHw9bqQqAC&q=%22A+dog+teaches+a+boy+fidelity+perseverance+and+to+turn+around+three+times+before+lying+down%22&pg=PA94#v=onepage (1949)

Dogs, Boy, Lying, Time

“Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips.”

Georgette Heyer book These Old Shades

Source: These Old Shades

“At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.”

Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) British missionary

Source: My Utmost for His Highest: Traditional Updated Edition

God, Bird, Learning, Singing

“You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

Life, Parent

“While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.”

Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954) African Americans' rights activist

Home, Girl

“Perhaps that is what it means to be a father- to teach your child to live without you. If so, no one was a greater father than I.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love (2005), P. 164

“A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.”

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist

Life, Reality

“His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

“Teach a child to read and he/she will pass a literary test.”

George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States

Reading

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”

Anatole France book The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

L'art d'enseigner n'est que l'art d'éveiller la curiosité des jeunes âmes pour la satisfaire ensuite.
Pt. II, ch. 4
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)

Art, Nature, Teachers' Day