Top 100 Teach Quotes
#1. For those of us who are no longer in school, we observed, it is necessary, if we want to go on learning and discovering, to know how to make books teach us well. In that situation, if we want to go on learning, then we must know how to learn from books, which are absent teachers.
Mortimer J. Adler
#2. I am surprised you didn't whack your head on an overhanging branch back there. I have never seen anyone leap straight up off the ground the way you did when you saw that snake! It would make a good move for our next dance. Do you think you could teach the others? The snake jump?
Jennifer Frick-Ruppert
#3. I have often discussed the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path in talks I have given about meditation. But, since I also teach Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist mediation, I have a very eclectic approach to the subject.
Frederick Lenz
#4. Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.
E. M. Forster
#5. Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#6. Plato says the purpose of philosophy is to teach us how to die.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#7. People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.
N. T. Wright
#8. Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
Nikki Giovanni
#9. You are God's agents in the care of children He has entrusted to you. Let His divine influence remain in your hears as you teach and persuade.
Russell M. Nelson
#10. your lack of knowledge may not for you but surely it is dangerous for your child because you cannot teach them which you your self do not know
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#11. My ministry is focused less on trying to teach the scriptural formula for what faithful discipleship for gay people is, and more about living with my gay friends in the pursuit of faithful discipleship.
Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter
#12. A street full of shadows will teach you what life is much better than the street full of lights!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#14. When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.
Yani Tseng
#15. Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach.
Arnold H. Glasow
#16. Prayer is a form of communication between God and man and man and God ... I am always impressed by the fact that it is recorded that the only thing that the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to do was to pray.
Howard Thurman
#17. I don't want you to praise me ... Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.
Edmonia Lewis
#18. I'm a mother and I have a daughter. I'm lucky to be in a position where I'm able to teach her things like self love and acceptance.
Denise Bidot
#19. Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need to know.
L. Lionel Kendrick
#20. America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
Jane Addams
#21. Most business problems can be solved if you can teach yourself to look beyond the dollar sign.
Harvey MacKay
#22. Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
Nadia Boulanger
#23. Madam, I could teach lessons in hell on the subject of 'want.'
Connie Brockway
#24. If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, I'm going to teach you otherwise.
Robert Atkins
#25. I believe that God is love. I believe that Jesus came to show us this love, to give us this love, to teach us about this love, so that we could live in this love and extend it to others.
Rob Bell
#26. I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.
Chris Evert
#27. Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
Wendy Kopp
#28. Exactly what are you wanting to teach your children? -How to love and care for themselves, or how to neglect and abandon themselves? Self-sarifice is NOT setting a good example.
Miya Yamanouchi
#29. Teach me, Beatrice. I'll enroll in your university as your student. Teach me how to care for you.
Sylvain Reynard
#30. I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.
Charles Spurgeon
#31. The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
George Bernard Shaw
#32. He is Romeo, and he is heartbroken. Every word is wistful. When he says, 'O, teach me how I should forget to think!' I, for the first time, see what the big deal is about Shakespeare.
Nina LaCour
#33. When a storm blows, you must stand firm. For it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.
Joseph M. Marshall III
#34. I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is not that success stories cannot serve as models of good design or as exemplars of creative engineering. They can do that, but they cannot teach us how close to failure they are.
Henry Petroski
#35. Great hospitals do two things. They look after patients, and they teach young doctors. We look after clients, and we teach young advertising people.
David Ogilvy
#36. I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.
John Cleese
#37. Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter Scott
#39. Winter comes to balance the warm glow of summer and to teach us to cherish it. A few minutes outside in the cold helps me to remember that.
Debora Geary
#40. He knew you could never teach an animal anything if you struck it, or even shouted at it angrily. He must always be gentle, and quiet, and patient, even when they made mistakes. Star
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#41. I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand you're going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.
Kyrsten Sinema
#42. Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.
Judy Sheindlin
#43. Either
"Learn from the world"
-or-
"World will teach you" ... !!!
Arafath Shanas
#44. No matter what, just let them write every day,even if you're not sure what to teach, just let them write. They'll do fine." -Lisa Cleaveland's words for her long-term substitute teacher.
Lisa Cleaveland
#45. The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.
James Beattie
#46. I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it.
Dan Meyer
#47. Teach the ignorant as much as you possibly can: society is culpable for not giving instruction gratis, and is responsible for the night it produces. This soul s full of darkness, and sin is committed, but the guilt person is not the man who commits the sin, but he who produces the darkness.
Victor Hugo
#48. Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do
Rakim
#49. Yeah, that's why I unbuckled my belt because I thought he could teach me about weights.
Marshall Thornton
#50. The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
Joseph Campbell
#51. Call upon the Goddess and God to protect you and teach you the secrets of magic.
Ask stones and plants to reveal their powers - and listen.
Scott Cunningham
#52. Do go on doing a lot of walking and keep up your love of nature, for that is the right way to understand art better and better. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see. And there are painters who never do anything that is no good...
Vincent Van Gogh
#53. My innocent eyes are illiterate, teach them some mischief. They're complete idiots, teach them some signs.
Myself
#54. Behold, I teach you the Overman! He is that lightning, he is that madness!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#55. It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
Jimmy Carter
#56. Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
William Masters
#57. For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.
Joseph Brodsky
#58. Demonstrate love to the people first, and then teach them to observe biblical principles
Sunday Adelaja
#59. The things you let go will someday teach you how to fly.
Jenim Dibie
#60. Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions.
Rick Warren
#61. Quitters never win and winners never quit. This is what I teach my students on a daily basis. I encourage my students to never give up.
Pamela G. Bowers
#62. Thou shalt wear trousers, but they shall fall half down to teach humility over arrogance.
Jay Woodman
#63. I've successfully lobbied and testified for stalking laws in several states, but I would trade them all for a high school class that would teach young men how to hear "no," and teach young women that it's all right to explicitly reject.
Gavin De Becker
#64. There is wisdom climbing mountains," Maderos said softly. "For they teach us how truly small we are. This is just a pebble within one kingdom. There are higher mountains you must climb." ~ The Wretched of Muirwood
Jeff Wheeler
#65. If I just sit here, what am I going to do? I don't have a trade. I don't teach or anything. I just love to make up characters and gradually build a story around them.
Elmore Leonard
#66. In the universities, we teach you what we decide you need to know. And the employers find out when they hire people that students didn't learn what we needed them to learn. Online learning offerings, like the University of Phoenix, have relationships with employers and teach what you need to know.
Clayton M Christensen
#67. Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
Abraham Cowley
#68. With the chronic obesity in America, it's more important than ever to not only feed kids healthy foods but to teach them how to make healthy choices on their own.
Jennie Garth
#69. Discipline will only teach the techniques - a great teacher gives discipline, motivation and love
Maury Massler
#70. I discovered that in life, one has got to serve to be observed, if one serve not, one will probably be reserved. Don't wisdom teach this?
Samuel Noah Kramer
#71. What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
Abraham Verghese
#73. Everyone can teach themselves to cry ... but sometimes you have just got to see that mental movie going on. You've got to be feeling it.
Cayden Boyd
#74. We are all told to ignore bullies. It's something they teach you, and they can teach you anything. It doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it. One should never ignore bullies. One should stop them.
Daniel Handler
#75. To teach means scarcely anything more than to show how things differ from one another in their different purposes, forms, and origins ... Therefore, he who differentiates well teaches well.
John Amos
#76. I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its way in there, whether I like it or not.
Rob Roberge
#77. Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips.
Georgette Heyer
#78. We need to teach our children how to debate the major life issues. Debate strengthens their beliefs and enables them to defend themselves against ideologies that are going to come their way.
Jim Rohn
#79. I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.'
Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods
Good and Evil.
Graham Greene
#80. Nature will teach us many lessons if we take the time to visit her classroom.
Donald L. Hicks
#81. And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night ...
William Shakespeare
#82. A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.
Paulo Coelho
#83. If you do not know the blessings you have when you have them, then Allah will teach you about them by taking them away from you
Ibn Ata Allah
#84. Shit, if I can teach you precalc, I can teach anybody. like maybe kids with autism.
John Green
#85. If the Danes come," he spoke to Wulfhere, "you must let me fight."
"You don't know how to fight."
"Then you must teach me." He slid Serpent-Breath back into the scabbard. "Wessex needs a king who can fight," he said, "instead of pray.
Bernard Cornwell
#86. The issue, then, is not, What is the best way to teach? but, What is mathematics really all about? ... Controversies about ... teaching cannot be resolved without confronting problems about the nature of mathematics.
Reuben Hersh
#87. About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
Tommy Lasorda
#88. Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better place. To win that knowledge, though, our species will have to trade in another piece of its vanity.
Astro Teller
#89. Despite romantic fantasies about caring candidates who learn of America in donut shops, most politicians rely on media to teach them what concerns the average person.
Dick Morris
#90. I never think my music isn't easy until I got to teach it to other people.
Esperanza Spalding
#91. All the flowers of the field, and many of the beasts of the plain, and now the very orbs of heaven, are turned into metaphors and symbols by which the glory of Jesus may be manifested to us. Where God takes such pains to teach, we ought to be at pains to learn.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#92. But who can find the truth in Canaan? Janis doesn't tell it, the Learning Room doesn't teach it. My father has twisted it, Mother half forgotten it, and the Forgetting is the thief that steals it.
Sharon Cameron
#93. The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.
Susanna Kearsley
#94. We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.
Harry Edwards
#95. We don't teach them to fight fair, and we don't start a fight.
Lee Child
#96. I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.
D.W. Griffith
#97. Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.
Oscar Wilde
#99. He said, "my discourse was all very strange, but especially the last part; for he could not understand, why nature should teach us to conceal what nature had given; that neither himself nor family were ashamed of any parts of their bodies; but, however, I might do as I pleased."
Jonathan Swift
#100. Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.
Mencius
