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Quotes About Knowledge

Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.
~ Tycho Brahe
Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
~ Cato the Younger
A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.
~ Miriam Defensor Santiago
The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.
~ T. D. Jakes
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
~ Bill Bowerman
I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.
~ Margaret Spellings
Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
~ Bruce Lee
I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.
~ Eric Mazur
Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.
~ Herbert Simon
Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.
~ Confucius
All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.
~ George Whitman
Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.
~ Willard Scott
Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.
~ Swami Vivekananda
We learn by teaching.
~ James Howell
Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
~ B. F. Skinner
Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
~ Ken Keyes Jr.
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
~ H. L. Mencken
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
~ Aristotle
Knowledge is a free good. The biggest cost in its transmission is not in the production or distribution of knowledge, but in its assimilation. This is something that all teachers know.
~ Kenneth Arrow
Students learn as much for a teacher as from a teacher.
~ Linda Darling-Hammond
In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.
~ Peter Matthiessen
The best teacher in life is experience.
~ LeBron James