Top 100 Teacher Of Quotes
#1. I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.
Joni Mitchell
#2. Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.
Tertullian
#3. You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
Diogenes
#4. A student who considers everybody and everything as a teacher will eventually be the teacher of the teachers!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#5. I don't consider myself a teacher of moral and political positions. I don't want to be that. I can't help but have a point of view when I make a film, but my first job is to entertain you.
Sydney Pollack
#7. The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.
Gerald Vizenor
#8. I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was a teacher of art history, so it was sort of intellectual, and maybe a bit much for me when I was a child.
Frida Giannini
#9. Fanatics. Every teacher of work-righteousness is a trouble-maker.
Martin Luther
#10. Gingrich - Primary mission, Advocate of civilization, Definer of civilization, Teacher of the rules of civilization, Leader of the civilizing forces.
Newt Gingrich
#11. What is a good man? A teacher of a bad man. What is a bad man? A good man's charge?
Laozi
#13. My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.
Elie Wiesel
#14. Place of the philosopher the singer is called in, and in place of the orator the teacher of stagecraft, and while the libraries are shut up forever like tombs, water-organs are manufactured and lyres as large as carriages.
Stephen Greenblatt
#15. I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.
Chang-rae Lee
#16. Nostalgia is in my blood. My mother was a passionate teacher of history and a lover of all things "was." I, too, prefer the bygone, and I'm prone to waxing wistful over the end of something even as I'm living it--cherishing, hanging on.
Lisa Anselmo
#17. You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
Annie Proulx
#18. Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
Christopher Morley
#20. Find a teacher of Tantric Zen and study with them because it is transference of awareness, a sharing of the perception of the beauty of life.
Frederick Lenz
#22. The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.
William Irwin Thompson
#23. Grace is the mastery of truth, the teacher of discipline, the light of the heart, the comforter of affliction, the banisher of sorrow, the nurse of devotion.
Thomas A Kempis
#24. As an enlightened teacher of Buddhism, I'd like to welcome you to the pathway to enlightenment. I'd like to encourage you to be more positive, to engage in the practice meditation, to learn how to do this wonderful thing - make your mind still in a crazy world.
Frederick Lenz
#25. But that is not how life teaches you, and I would say that life is the best teacher of all. Most of the time, life does not talk to you. It just sort of pushes you around. Each push is life saying, 'Wake up. There's something I want you to learn.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#26. That a teacher of the gospel should first be a partaker of it is a simple truth, but at the same time a rule of the most weighty importance.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#27. Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
Harry Callahan
#28. Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.
Herbert Hoover
#29. In order to pass into other dimensions you need to really understand what is out there. A teacher of mysticism is able to explain how to deal with these other worlds and universes.
Frederick Lenz
#30. America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#31. As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.
Christopher Moore
#32. I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.
Haruki Murakami
#33. The role of the artist is like that of an explorer and a teacher - a teacher of seeing. No one is more capable of conveying this enlightenment than the artist.
Ken Danby
#34. "Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left.
Eckhart Tolle
#35. The teacher who isn't a genius is made into a teacher of genius by the student of genius at this precise moment for a very precise time period, I thought. But
Thomas Bernhard
#36. So, a great Indian teacher of mathematics discovered the zero written in God's notebook, and, thanks to him, we can now read many more pages in the notebook. Is that it?
Yoko Ogawa
#37. Every teacher of Transcendental Meditation is a hero.
David Lynch
#38. The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#39. Mama is the greatest teacher, teacher of love, fearlessness and compassion.
Stevie Wonder
#40. A teacher of knowledge and power gives you experiences in other dimensions. They show you that the universe is much bigger and more fascinating than you had ever imagined. They give you direct and immediate experiences in other realities.
Frederick Lenz
#41. The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.
H.L. Mencken
#43. Try to find a teacher of meditation and meditate at least once a week in a group with people who meditate a little better than you do. It will inspire you to keep meditating.
Frederick Lenz
#44. We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.
Charles Kingsley
#45. And the greatest teacher of them all, the carpenter from the plains of Galilee, gave us the Secret time and time again, As ye believe, so shall it be done, unto you.
Earl Nightingale
#46. A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You're the one.
Byron Katie
#47. Make the depths of the stillness as your teacher, and then it will make you the teacher of the depths!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#48. If,' Roland said. 'An old teacher of mine used to call it the only word a thousand letters long.
Stephen King
#49. It is best to study from a teacher of ANY subject, as long as you focus on the teachings and NOT on the teacher. All of the real important answers to life's questions lie within your own mind.
Frederick Lenz
#50. But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#51. She began to study with a teacher of teachers, whom they brought for that purpose from the city of Mompox, and who died unexpectedly two weeks later, and she continued for several years with the best musician at the seminary, whose gravedigger's breath distorted her arpeggios.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#52. I wanted to be a part of history and not just a recorder and teacher of history. So that kind of attitude towards history, history itself as a political act, has always informed my writing and my teaching.
Howard Zinn
#53. There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.
Boyd K. Packer
#55. By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart.
Phillip Moffitt
#56. Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Stevie Wonder
#57. A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.
Roy Peter Clark
#58. Muriel, my mother, was my main confidant. She was a teacher of English at Watford grammar school but took a break while my sister Madeleine and I were children. She held court in the kitchen, and we talked about everything.
John Sulston
#59. The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
Malcolm X
#60. Like mythology, Greek philosophy has a tendency to personify ideas. And the Sophist is not merely a teacher of rhetoric for a fee of one or fifty drachmae (Crat.), but an ideal of Plato's in which the falsehood of all mankind is reflected.
Plato
#61. Jesus is more than a friend. He is a teacher of truth and life who shows us the way that leads to happiness.
Pope Francis
#62. The Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff have primacy in the entire world. The Roman Pontiff is the Successor of Blessed Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, true Vicar of Christ, Head of the whole Church, Father and Teacher of all Christians.
Pope Benedict XIV
#63. I remember an old teacher of mine once saying that behind every dark cloud the sun was just waiting to boil you to death.
David Gemmell
#64. Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise.
Idries Shah
#65. One's enemy is often the best teacher of tolerance.
Colleen Houck
#66. All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is
the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.
Starhawk
#69. The Kazi is searching the words of the Koran, and instructing others:
but if his heart be not steeped in that love, what does it avail, though he be a teacher of men?
Kabir
#70. To me dogs are not the students, not the ones that need training. To me a dog is a teacher of life, who teaches us the principles of the most important moral values; honesty, integrity, loyalty, trust, respect and love.
Cesar Millan
#71. He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, Mac Rebenack, James Booker, and Huey Smith. All acknowledge him as The Great Master.
Jerry Wexler
#72. Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.
Martin Luther
#73. No greater responsibility can rest upon a man, than to be a teacher of God's children
David O. McKay
#74. History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#75. Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit ... I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#76. The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.
David Gergen
#77. Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it was a revelation.
Edward Eggleston
#78. For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#79. The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.
Laozi
#80. In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.
Trevor Nunn
#81. Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter
Aulus Persius Flaccus
#82. The true teacher of love is the heart. The heart is very, very wise. It makes mistakes from time to time, but it has a wisdom all of its own.
Frederick Lenz
#83. The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.
Adlai E. Stevenson
#84. Man's place is to be the first without being the last ... [I]t's man's place to be the teacher of all the rest who are capable of becoming what he's become.
Daniel Quinn
#85. Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.
Paulo Freire
#86. The Master said, 'If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge, so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.
Anonymous
#87. What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, q a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes r speechless idols!
Anonymous
#88. Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.
Ray Bradbury
#90. Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.
H.G.Wells
#92. There is no better teacher of rough necessity than bad luck, and you will have great use of me, I promise.
Catherynne M Valente
#93. I know I have this kind of teaching element in me, but I don't want to become a 'teacher of theater' because that would formalize something that I'd much rather keep casual.
Richard Griffiths
#94. I never liked the Hierarchy of the Church-an equality in the teacher of Religion, and a dependence on the people, are republican sentiments-but if the Clergy combine, they will have their influence on Government
Rufus King
#95. I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.
Burl Ives
#96. [T]he more critical lesson I learned that day is still one too many kids never figure out: don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.
Sonia Sotomayor
#97. Not the comfort, but the confrontation and hardship, is the teacher of a great life.
Debasish Mridha
#99. The way of Zen is to become independent and strong. Don't rely on others for perceptions of life and truth. Do it individually. Go to a teacher of Zen to learn how to do that, not to get answers for individual life situations.
Frederick Lenz
#100. An eminent teacher of girls said, the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
