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Quotes About Teaching

Those who can't do, teach, and those who can't teach, critique.
~ Douglas Preston
She learned her first two signs five weeks later, on—let's see here—June 4, 1967. They were hug and me. On June 6, she spontaneously signed Hug me Jennie to Mrs. Archibald, her surrogate mother.
~ Douglas Preston
Jennie taught me just how worthless that is. Being smart. Jennie wasn't smart by human standards, but she had a set of values. Real values. You see, for Jennie, freedom was the highest value. Language gave Jennie freedom. Although I didn't know it at the time, she taught me the real meaning of the word "freedom," not the bullshit meaning you get from politicians and priests.
~ Douglas Preston
the value of work? Have I taught them self-reliance? Have I taught them to take care of each
~ Douglas Preston
The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.
~ Adyashanti
Jesus is saying, "Come, come into the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven exists on the face of the earth, and men and women do not understand it.
~ Adyashanti
The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers.
~ Adyashanti
The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers. For it is your conscious and unconscious assumptions and beliefs that distort your perception and cause you to see separation and division where there is actually only unity and completeness.
~ Adyashanti
Jesus said, "I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it until it blazes." GOSPEL OF THOMAS
~ Adyashanti
But in the Gospel of Thomas, the whole point of Jesus' teaching is to discover your true identity, to realize who and what you really and truly are here and now.
~ Adyashanti
Time as he grows old teaches all things.
~ Aeschylus
PROMETHEUS: 'Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers
~ Aeschylus
Example is more powerful than precept.
~ Aesop
Example is the best precept.
~ Aesop
The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat.
~ African Proverb
But Aunt Maureen makes smashing omelettes." Julia Upjohn. "She makes smashing omelettes." Poirot's voice was happy. He sighed. "Then Hercule Poirot has not lived in vain, he said. It was I who taught your Aunt Maureen to make an omelette.
~ Agatha Christie
It was a cheap school, you know, and the teachers weren't very good. They could never answer questions properly." "Very few teachers can," I{Jerry}said. "Why not? They ought to." I agreed.
~ Agatha Christie
O que importa para você é o ensino e o lado ético. Sua visão está certa. Mas, se quiser fazer sucesso com qualquer coisa, sabe, terá que ser boa empresária também. Ideias são como qualquer outra coisa: precisam ser vendidas.
~ Agatha Christie
I remember my dear mother teaching me that a gentlewoman should always be able to control herself in public, however much she may give way in private.
~ Agatha Christie
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
~ Agnes Repplier
To share wisdom with the immature is like giving goldbricks to a child.
~ Ahmed Korayem
Religion is the Kindergarten to Spirituality. One cannot Realize God without Religion.
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
Wisdom is not learning but seeing clearly what can never be taught.
~ Ajahn Brahm
But I have undertaken this series with the feeling that I must not be afraid of shaming myself, and that I should try telling myself the things I am always telling my juniors.
~ Akira Kurosawa