Quotes about Teaching

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.

Enlightenment - Ignorance - Strength - Teaching - Wants - Weakness

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Thomas Paine

Philosopher, Founding Father of the United States

People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is good; they permit themselves not to doubt of it, and they carry the ideas they form of the benevolence of the Almighty to the book which they have been taught to believe was written by his authority. Good heavens! It is quite another thing; it is a book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy.

Almighty - Belief - Heavens - Lie - Permission - Teaching - Writing

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Confucius

Philosopher, Politician

If I were travelling with two partners, one virtuous and one dishonest, both would be useful as teachers. I would perceive what's good of the first one and I would imitate him whereas I would try to correct in me the defects I may see in the second one.

Perception - Teaching - Trial - Virtue

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Politician, Novelist, Novelist

It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

End - Grace - Meaning - Romance - State - Teaching - Thinking

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Horace

Poet, Senator, Soldier

Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

Teaching - Wants

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Tony Robbins

Actor, Author, Author

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Challenge - Improvement - Inspiration - Learning - Masterpiece - People - Positive - Success - Teaching

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Robert Kiyosaki

Writer, Author, Investor

Rich dad has taught me "You can't do it" doesn't necessarily mean "you can't". It more often means "they can't".

Father - Meaning - Rich - Teaching

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic, Political Activist

Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.

Endurance - Strength - Teaching

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John D. Rockefeller

Business Magnate, Industrialist

What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario, labor negotiator, diplomat, educator, publicity and public relations expert, politician, skilled businessman, a social sophisticate, a servant of the community, a tireless leader - becomingly humble before authority - a teacher, a tyrant, and a continuing student of the arts.

Education - Expert - Humility - Leadership - Management - Student - Teaching

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Petrarch

Designer, Poet, Poet

Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my questions with readiness. Some present in review before me the events of past ages; others reveal to me the secrets of Nature. These teach me how to live, and those how to die; these dispel my melancholy by their mirth, and amuse me by their sallies of wit. Some there are who prepare my soul to suffer everything, to desire nothing, and to become thoroughly acquainted with itself. In a word, they open the door to all the arts and sciences.

Age - Answers - Art - Book - Death - Events - Past - Return - Secrets - Soul - Suffering - Teaching - Wit

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Ayn Rand

Writer, Philosopher

Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.

Earth - Man - Teaching

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John Adams

Former President of the United States

No truth is more clearly taught in the Volume of Inspiration, nor any more fully demonstrated by the experience of all ages, than that a deep sense and a due acknowledgment of the governing providence of a Supreme Being and the accountableness of men to Him as the searcher of hearts and righteous distributor of rewards and punishments are conducive equally to the happiness and rectitude of individuals and to the well being of communities.

Government - Man - Reward - Righteousness - Teaching - Wellness

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Alexander Pope

Poet

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Feelings - Hiding - Teaching

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

Belief - Inspiration - Quest - Teaching

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Alexander Pope

Poet

Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.

Love - Teaching

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Ovid

Psychologist, Poet, Poet

Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

Enemy - Teaching

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Pope Francis

Head of the Catholic Church, Sovereign of the Vatican City State

By saying "blessed are those who mourn", Jesus does not intend to declare an unfortunate and burdensome condition in life to be happy. Suffering is not a value in itself, but a reality that Jesus teaches us to live with the correct attitude.

Blessing - Conditioning - Misfortune - Mourning - Teaching - Value

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T. S. Eliot

Poet, Essayist, Publisher, Playwright, Critic

Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

Teaching

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Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Teacher, Author

Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.

Accept - Animals - Death - Integrity - Meaning - Problem - Real - Teaching - Watching

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Courting - Teaching

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