Quotes About Perspective

No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.

Put every great teacher in a room, and they'd agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything.

We may not always see eye to eye, but we can try to see heart to heart.

There's only 5 real jobs in the world. Teacher, fireman, policeman, doctor and somebody who is in the armed service. If you don't have one of those 5 jobs, you shouldn't take your life that serious.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to me, "Death happens. It is just death, and how we meet it is up to us.

You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.

All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers.

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.

I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs.

Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.

What makes you think that what you know is any different from what I know? I had different teachers.

When we are young, parents and teachers tell us we can do anything and become whatever we want. But as we grow older, these same people tell us we must be more realistic.

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

Experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher.

Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.

My teacher asked me what I want to be when I grow up, I said happy. She told me I don't understand the assignment, I told her she doesn't understand life.

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.

It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television

I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.

Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.