Quotes About Teaching

To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.

'Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.

Example is more efficacious than precept.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.

Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage-and give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still-the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.

I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an okay person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.

An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool-shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple-teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep-wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise-follow him.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit.

Teaching was the best way to learn.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.

You can't have experiments that aren't truthful. You can't lie about equations. Shouldn't be lying in football. That's a message that we should be teaching.

A good business book teaches simple truths.

It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written.

No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.

My favorite season was when I wrote every morning for three or four hours, then I would go and teach my classes at school, come home to my family and hang out with them, have dinner, and then, after everyone was tucked in, I would prepare for my classes the next day.

My father had a perfectly good drummer who he had an argument with. So one day, on a Tuesday, my father came in with a cheap pawn shop set of drums and said, 'Put your foot here, and you kick there, and you play this, and this is the high hat.' And Friday night, I was playing in a honky-tonk.

I knew I can teach physics well, so earning money from tuition was no struggle. The struggle was to earn money through acting.

My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune.

You need to tune into a different way of being funny for kids. They're learning the rhythm of a joke.

Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.