Top 100 The Best Teacher Quotes
#2. I'd always told myself that I deserve good things, that I was worthy, but if I ever believed it. You can't tell yourself anything. Your heart only believes what it feels, and experience is the best teacher.
Penelope Douglas
#3. The best teacher teaches by inspiring students to learn by showing them the ultimate purpose of learning.
Debasish Mridha
#5. The best teacher kindles the fire of knowledge with appreciation and love of students whose hearts so eagerly desire to learn.
Debasish Mridha
#6. One's enemy is often the best teacher of tolerance.
Colleen Houck
#7. Thank you for all your guidance and wisdom, for setting the bar so much higher than I thought I could reach, and for giving me plenty of room to run with my own ideas. You've been the best teacher I've ever had.
Lisa Genova
#10. Travel is the best teacher. The only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world.
C. JoyBell C.
#11. The best teacher in the world is someone who loves what he or she does, and just loves it in front of you.
Fred Rogers
#12. If you don't have a teacher, don't worry. Learn by observing the best teacher which is nature.
Debasish Mridha
#13. To remind me, pain is the best teacher
Holly Black
#14. Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.
Robbie Williams
#15. Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.
Benjamin Franklin
#16. Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.
Ann Landers
#17. Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
Charles Kettering
#20. Experience is the best teacher."... The primary and most obvious reason for this is that revelation is not over, God is constantly revealing himself to us in our experience.... Of
Dennis Linn
#21. In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama
#22. The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view
Jack Kerouac
#23. The best teacher you'll ever have is yourself. I'm not your teacher! I'm here only to show you the way towards what you already know, and also, show you a way to find out what you don't know but feel that it exists.
Irina Serban
#24. You can't build rich lives simply by reading sermons or following abstract rules. Example is the best teacher. Moral improvement occurs most reliably when the heart is warmed,
David Brooks
#25. Experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher.
Andy Andrews
#26. Not the formal schooling but the journey through the life is the best teacher.
Debasish Mridha
#27. The best teacher teaches not only the information but how to use that information to improve life.
Debasish Mridha
#28. He who knows what best to omit is the best teacher.
Otto Neurath
#29. The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
#30. What I had been taught all my life was not true: experience is not the best teacher! Some people learn and grow as a result of their experience; some people don't. Everybody has some kind of experience. It's what you do with that experience that matters.
John C. Maxwell
#31. There are literally a million ways to deal with any situation and Madiba was the best teacher in tutoring me to see those ways, but lying was never an option.
Zelda La Grange
#32. The best teacher is experience. Find the educational in every situation.
Bryan Cranston
#33. The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
H.L. Mencken
#34. Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.
Yoko Ono
#36. The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.
H.L. Mencken
#38. The best teacher is very interactive.
Bill Gates
#39. The best teacher for a leader is evaluated experience.
John C. Maxwell
#40. If experience is the best teacher, there's nothing that comes close to the experience of life.
Michael A. Singer
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you.
Lee Smith
#44. Adversities are the best teacher and challenges are the best motivator.
Debasish Mridha
#45. And for Peter ... well, sometimes cruelty is kindness in disguise. Sometimes pain is the best teacher. Sometimes it does you no harm to realize that there's a limit to what you can get away with.
Mike Carey
#46. Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
Christopher Morley
#48. The best teacher is the one who teaches you how to be your own teacher!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#49. Experience is the best teacher. I've been through a lot - going to the Olympics, going to the Finals, having a lot of good games and having a lot of bad games. It's a rollercoaster ride and I'm just happy I'm a part of it. If it was easy, then everybody could do it.
Kevin Durant
#50. In later life, he [Einstein] would say that love is the best teacher, meaning that if you love a thing, you will be eager to learn about it, and the work will not seem hard.
Robert Cwiklik
#52. Teacher: Where is your homework? Billy: I lost it fighting this kid who said you weren't the best teacher in the school.
Various
#53. The best teacher is he who kindles the fire of imaginations and does not fill minds with only information.
Debasish Mridha
#54. I can't do a role or character unless I have lived that character. For me, the best teacher is life.
Vittorio Grigolo
#55. Remember, young man, experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher. By reading about the lives of great people, you can unlock the secrets to what made them great.
Andy Andrews
#56. Experience is the best teacher. A compelling story is a close second.
Paul Smith
#58. Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.
George Washington Carver
#60. The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, 'Your ego will get you killed.'
William Sanderson
#61. In the past generation, the American educational system has decided not to seek the very best teachers, give them lots of kids to teach, and pay them more - which would help children the most. It has decided to hire every teacher it can get its hands on and pay them less.
Malcolm Gladwell
#62. What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it is an act of aggression designed to torment a parent or teacher ... Mischief at best, violence at worst is the boy's proclamation of masculinity.
Louise J. Kaplan
#63. The messages our kids receive from teachers, coaches
and even, with the best intentions, from us - can push them toward pride or despair ... toward self-righteousness or self-hatred.
Phil Vischer
#64. The best answer to the question, 'What is the most effective method of teaching?' is that it depends on the goal, the student, the content, and the teacher. But the next best answer is, 'Students teaching other students.'
Wilbert J. McKeachie
#65. When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
Carla Bley
#66. It is a common mistake to think of failure as the enemy of success. Failure is a teacher-a harsh one, but the best. Pull your failures to pieces looking for the reason. Put your failure to work for you.
Thomas J. Watson
#67. I had one of those defining moments in the fourth grade when my teacher said the story I wrote was the best in the class, and therefore I would be going Young Authors Conference where I'd get to hang out with authors all day.
Lisa McMann
#68. As in everything, nature is the best instructor.
Adolf Hitler
#69. I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style.
Julie London
#70. The woman who is my best friend, my teacher, my everything: Mom.
Sandra Vischer
#71. Growing up, I had a singing teacher who was an amazing champion of mine who helped build up my confidence, and I also count my therapist as one of the best teachers that I've ever had.
Gideon Glick
#72. Without discussing it with his mother, Anton went up to his teacher, Miss Katballe, and informed her that after seven years he was now quitting school. It was the best day of her life, she replied. With unexpected politeness he bowed, thanked her, and said, likewise.
Carsten Jensen
#73. When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.
Frederic Chopin
#74. The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers, From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air, Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw, Shriller than trumpets under the Law, Now a sermon and now a prayer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#75. Worst People Are the best TEACHERS.
Ujas Soni
#76. Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.
Maximillian Degenerez
#77. There's no better teacher for writing than reading ... Get a library card. That's the best investment.
Alisa Valdes
#78. Read something of interest every day - something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible.
Jane Yolen
#79. The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.
Leo Tolstoy
#80. I think I tended toward the Russian training because my first teacher taught a version of Vaganova, and it was drilled into me that that was the best system, and also at the time there were a lot of great Russian stars.
Sascha Radetsky
#81. I'm going to be a warrior," Jaybird said to Mouse.
She flew beside him as he walked through tall grasses and rolling hills.
Mouse cocked his head. "Oh? How's that?"
"I'll find a teacher," said Jay. "I'll train and train and become the best, then I'll lead all the other warriors!
B.T. Lowry
#82. Don't let people scare you from a career that may not net you a six figure salary. If you want to be a teacher, teach. But knowing that your salary may only reach a certain level, do all that you can to become the best money manager you can be.
Michelle Singletary
#83. The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.
Tullian Tchividjian
#84. The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools.
Malala Yousafzai
#85. As a teacher myself I've been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn't want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful.
Rosalind Wiseman
#86. Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
Vijay Singh
#87. History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
Rosa Luxemburg
#88. 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
#89. My mistakes have been some of the best teachers of my life.
Kelly Cutrone
#91. Going to school is like going to prison ... you have about two weeks to establish your credibility, failing which you're either a punk or as good as dead. Depending on the school, some students can manage ot avoid those stark alternatives, but even at the best school, no teacher does.
Garret Keizer
#92. My first true lesson in writing came from Mr. Bowden when I was 16. At my high school, he was the teacher known to be the very best at literature and writing.
Jeff Lindsay
#93. The best educators are the ones that inspire their students. That inspiration comes from a passion that teachers have for the subject they're teaching. Most commonly, that person spent their lives studying that subject, and they bring an infectious enthusiasm to the audience.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#94. One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because the God we are all seeking lies inside oneself, not outside.
Shirley Maclaine
#95. Usage is the best language teacher.
Quintilian
#96. No school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests
Dorothy H Cohen
#97. In the U.K. we have the best geography teachers in the world.
Prince Andrew
#98. Mac: "It's not the sidhe-seers." He stopped and went very still. JZB: "Who is it?" Mac: "The MacKeltars." He was silent a long moment. Then he began to laugh, softly. JZB: "Well played, Ms. Lane." Mac: "I had a good teacher." JZB: "The best. Hop on one foot, Ms. Lane." Mac and Barrons
Karen Marie Moning
#99. A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.
Christopher Pike
#100. From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact.
George Lucas
