Greatest Teachers Quotes

#1. Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.

Robert Thurman

#2. Children who die young are some of our greatest teachers. We are allowed to die when we have taught what we came to teach and when we have learned what we came to learn.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#3. Healing opportunities can be disguised as people who really piss you off. Pay attention because they could be your greatest teachers.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#4. Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation.

Richard P. Feynman

#5. Difficult people are the greatest teachers.

Pema Chodron

#6. I'm an actor. I was trained by Stella Adler, one of the greatest teachers of the world. I was 19 years old, and she frightened me to death. I was her houseboy for a while.

Mark Margolis

#7. I believe that the greatest teachers create thinking students.

David F. Swensen

#8. I would like to thank the people who've brought me those dark moments, when I felt most wounded, betrayed. You have been my greatest teachers.

Oprah Winfrey

#9. Our enemies are our greatest teachers.

Dalai Lama

#10. For all its ups and downs and challenges, I love writing. We only grow through adversity, so I welcome the difficulties, knowing bumps in the road are my greatest teachers.

Lori Wilde

#11. Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

Lloyd Alexander

#12. I regard Heart-Master Adi Da as one of the greatest teachers in the Western world today.

Irina Tweedie

#13. The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#14. I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him.

Ricky Skaggs

#15. I'm very grateful to have my kids in my life; they're my greatest teachers. But to pretend it's always easy is just not really true.

Patricia Arquette

#16. God knew we would make mistakes. Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth. Our greatest challenges in life will one day be known to us as our greatest teachers.

Betty Eadie

#17. I have been blessed to have had many excellent teachers. The further I get away from school, though, the more I realize that the greatest teachers in my life have come from outside of academia.

Brad Thor

#18. Many forget that most of the greatest theologians God has given to the church were also pastors and teachers in the local church.

Joel R. Beeke

#19. You don't see a positive culture, stability among teachers, or leadership. We don't focus enough in our policies on creating conditions to educating kids with the greatest needs. There is no state that does that.

Pedro Noguera

#20. I'm convinced that some of our greatest and most influential teachers show up in our lives disguised as people we resent or even despise.

Wayne Dyer

#21. Teachers are the greatest freaks on earth, ...

Anne Frank

#22. Emmet Fox was one of the world's greatest metaphysical teachers. His works have contributed profoundly to the spiritual understanding of millions of people, including myself.

Marianne Williamson

#23. My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

Condoleezza Rice

#24. Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.

Gilbert Highet

#25. Our mothers are our first teachers, and we teach others the same lessons we learn from them. As a child, when your mother believes in you, you believe in yourself, and when that happens, there is nothing you can't do. As a mother, that is the greatest gift we can give to a child.

Caroline Kennedy

#26. the quality of classroom practice that a child encounters has unmatched potential with respect to influencing student learning and achievement. What teachers are doing in classes with students on a daily basis has the greatest potential to influence the academic outcome for students,

Steven Katz

#27. There are two things that make today the greatest entrepreneurial age: 1. We have access to teachers like never before. 2. You can start a business from home while still working at your job.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#28. Today i am feeling proud that i have a greatest teacher. My encouragement my motivation and my leader is only one that is my teacher. From silent to talkative from dread to cheer all credit goes to teacher for their such a encouragement.

Avinash Advani

#29. I've often called mothers the greatest spiritual teachers in the world.

Oprah Winfrey

#30. Sometimes the most difficult, horrific things can be the greatest spiritual teachers.

Cameron Mathison

#31. In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D'Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love.

Taylor Mali

#32. We are fortunate to have some of the greatest and best teachers in the world, but we want to make sure that those few that try to sneak through the system are caught in advance.

Jon Porter

#33. Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.

Solomon Ortiz

#34. Books tap the wisdom of our species
the greatest minds, the best teachers
from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

Carl Sagan

#35. I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.

Oprah Winfrey

#36. I always appreciated my teachers. When I was 16, I gave them the greatest gift I could think of. I dropped out of school.

Craig Ferguson

#37. I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.

Patricia Polacco

#38. Osho is one of India's greatest mystics ... I see him as one of the world's great teachers, thinkers, philosophers and guides of our times. I have enormous respect for his world vision and the kind of International Communities he is building. I have always felt his influence in my life.

Kabir Bedi

#39. The venerable teachers, philosophers & spiritual practitioners throughout history have concluded that the greatest happiness we can experience comes from the development of an open, loving heart.

Allan Lokos

#40. Plato and Aristotle are my teachers. Even Kant is my teacher, but my greatest teacher is my failures.

Debasish Mridha