Top 100 T'teach Quotes
#1. What did I tell you about plastic ties?
Only for humans, Julie murmured.
If you don't listen to me, I can't teach you anything.
Ilona Andrews
#2. I see a couple of things missing. Any society, any community, even in the family, when the elders don't do their jobs, the youth suffer. We have no done our job. I'm saying anybody 55 and up. We didn't teach people the basic things.
Iyanla Vanzant
#3. I used to jokingly say, "I don't teach art. I'm an art doctor." Students come to me and say, "My art's sick," and we help them make it well.
John Baldessari
#4. I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I'm teaching a story by Hemingway, my endeavor is to present the story that Hemingway wrote in its fullest realization.
Joyce Carol Oates
#5. I don't teach. I don't think I could. I also don't really do anything else artistically, locally.
Neil Farber
#6. I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Doris Lessing
#8. You can't teach kindness with a whip, Janus.
Chris Lester
#9. You can't teach others if you are living the same way.
James Brown
#10. You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the seat of their pants.
Marya Hornbacher
#11. Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything.
Bill Veeck
#12. Fish for a man, he'll eat for a day, don't teach him to de-bone that fish, You may not have to worry about him tomorrow!
V. Pain
#13. The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn't teach us anything.
Michael Lewis
#14. Knowledge is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if you can't teach and you can't motivate, you can't lead.
John Wooden
#15. You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
Galileo Galilei
#16. They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right.
Dean Wareham
#17. It meant she considered relevancy before volunteering information. You can't teach people how to do that.
Penny Reid
#18. When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.
Graham Nash
#19. You can't teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.
Duane Michals
#20. You can't teach a young musician to compose any more than you can teach a delicate plant to grow, but you can guide him a little by planting a stick in here and a stick in there.
Frederick Delius
#21. You don't teach a person how to write as much as you teach that person how to survive the writing process.
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
#22. If you're like most of us, your mama didn't teach you that threesomes were wholesome.
Victoria Vantoch
#23. It was a gift, something you can't teach. His hands looked like they were born to have a golf club in them.
Curtis Strange
#24. We don't teach you how to dwell. We also don't teach you how to forget. We teach you how to move on.
Seanan McGuire
#25. Youths are passed through schools that don't teach, then forced to search for jobs that don't exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.
Huey Newton
#26. I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
Toni Morrison
#27. I think that even though my father wasn't there, in his death and in his memory, he has been a mentor to me in my manhood because my mom couldn't teach me how to be a man.
Francis Capra
#28. Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
Berenice Abbott
#29. The moments of the class must belong to the student - not the students, but to the very undivided student. You don't teach a class. You teach a student.
Ken Bain
#30. If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in Dead Poets Society. I wanna be that guy. I couldn't teach seniors because they'd be smarter than me.
Jake M. Johnson
#31. Biology keeps culture on a leash, which is why you can't teach a dog to play poker, never mind all those lying paintings.
Gregory Cochran
#32. What's the condition of America like, spiritually, tonight? Zero. Why? Because we've got blind men coming out of seminaries. Men there don't teach them; they don't hear a word about Hell. They're blind themselves, and as blind men, they lead the blind and they go to Hell.
Leonard Ravenhill
#33. School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for.
Vince Staples
#34. Sir, I think maybe your mama didn't teach you how to talk to women. And she's not my girlfriend.
Maggie Stiefvater
#35. It's like people always say, Well, does sport teach you anything in life? It teaches you certain things, but it doesn't teach you other things. It doesn't teach, as I say, very much about marriage, very much about how to make a living, any of those things.
George Plimpton
#36. They teach you how to handle life in England, but they don't teach you a thing about death. There's no book telling you what to do when your mum or dad dies.
Ozzy Osbourne
#37. You don't teach information in a writing workshop.
Tobias Wolff
#38. You can get people the qualifications; But you can't teach them the qualities they're going to need. You can't teach integrity, a drive for excellence, refusal to quit under pressure. It's too late to build that into people you're going to hire.
Roger Ailes
#39. You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana.
John Rachel
#40. The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can't teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It's terrible.
Steve Jobs
#41. Don't teach too many postures; just the main ones, and hold them for a long time.
Dharma Mittra
#42. Maybe he's not college-smart, but he's smart in a way they can't teach.
Lisa Kleypas
#43. We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.
John Denver
#44. Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management.
Peter Drucker
#45. The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.
Karl Marlantes
#46. It's called being polite; they probably didn't teach you that at home. Doesn't mean I like you or anything.
Rachel Caine
#48. The teacher doesn't teach, not really. The teacher offers stimulation and ways in which the person can educate himself or herself. At best the teacher wakes up that person and makes a person hungry.
Murray Louis
#49. Sure, the killer was my son, but I didn't teach him to pull the trigger of the gun. It's the killer on this TV screen, you can't blame me, it's the images he sees.
Jack Johnson
#50. Now, we don't teach children in schools to be creative. We don't teach them to experiment. We want them to fill in the right answer, tick the right answer in the box.
James Dyson
#51. Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, 'Those who can, do, those who can't, teach,' forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.
Michael Ignatieff
#52. Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject, ethics, logic, philosophy, the humanities and sociology, in fact everything that is part of how we live and react to one another.
Bernard Baruch
#53. I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
Walter Dean Myers
#54. Heartache doesn't teach you to be resilient. It teaches you to protect your fragility. It teaches you to fear love. And it draws a bright red circle around all the ways you've failed as a person and laughs while you cry.
Leisa Rayven
#55. No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?
Red Grange
#56. I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.
Isaac Asimov
#58. You can't teach an old hater new truths.
Dane Cook
#59. A true teacher doesn't teach you to think like him, but to think without him.
Tariq Ramadan
#60. Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, 'We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.' Wow! What a clever short cut.
Jim Rohn
#61. You can't teach someone to be enlightened. It's something you have to go and do. You can't teach someone to meditate well. It's something you have to go and do.
Frederick Lenz
#62. I always tell people, I can't teach you yoga. Nobody can teach you yoga. I can't teach you to teach yoga. All I can do is teach you a set of instructions and if you follow these instructions, hopefully it will lead you to the experience of yoga.
Beryl Bender Birch
#63. Don't preach. Don't teach. Don't judge. Take a loved child by the hand and explore something fascinating together.
Dee Hock
#64. You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.
Lance Armstrong
#65. I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.
Robert Morgan
#66. The boy answers, "Don't ask unless you are willing to be hurt."
Indra says, "I ask. Teach." (That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.)
Joseph Campbell
#67. Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.
Stephanie Perkins
#68. You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will.
Daniel Greenberg
#69. Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It's stupid. It doesn't teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don't know how to post. They don't know the fundamentals of the game. It's stupid.
Kobe Bryant
#70. You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.
Seymour Papert
#71. But a doctor learns, because he has to, not to worry actively about patients until the worrying can do some good; meanwhile, they have to be walled off in a quiet compartment of the mind. They don't teach that at medical school, but it's as important as your stethoscope.
Jack Finney
#72. I'm not sure why we have that [book on weaponry] on the shelves. I'd feel a lot better if we didn't teach our guests a hundred different ways to kill me.
Lindsey Renee Backen
#73. After the war, the Austrians just denied their role in it all. They didn't teach it in school. But since 1990 they have openly acknowledged their role in the Holocaust and I feel more comfortable in Austria. I feel a sort of reconciliation.
Eric Kandel
#74. Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.
Chris Christie
#75. I try to take a couple of young guys under my wing and tell them what I've learned, because you can't teach nobody if you don't know anything.
Gucci Mane
#76. You can't teach talent, but you can teach people how to read strenuously and mimic the moves of rock-star writers so that they eventually accumulate a toolbox of skills.
Benjamin Percy
#77. I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.
Richard MacDonald
#78. Whenever feasible, pick your team on character, not skill. You can teach skills; you can't teach character.
Ranulph Fiennes
#79. Some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school ...
John Geddes
#80. You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.
Tony Bennett
#81. All people naturally hate. My kid bites people now. I didn't teach my kid to bite anybody. Kids say mean stuff. Only through love do we get this evil out of them. Only through love and structure and discipline do they not hate. The kids that hate didn't learn anything, that's the problem.
Chris Rock
#82. If I didn't teach the aerobics class, I wouldn't come, and I need to stay in shape. I've got a whole wardrobe of sleeveless dresses and strapless gowns, not to mention the short skirts.
Bonnie Bassler
#83. My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.
Rumi
#84. T's funny, but your parents can give you everything in the world, but they can't teach you what to do with it. That, you have to learn for yourself.
Amanda Carpenter
#85. And if those children are unresponsive, maybe you can't teach them yet, but you can love them. And if you love them today, maybe you can teach them tomorrow.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#86. I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'
Ursula K. Le Guin
#88. We don't teach them to fight fair, and we don't start a fight.
Lee Child
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
B.F. Skinner
#93. Those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach, teach gym.
Woody Allen
#94. You can't teach a dog not to bark, for 'tis God's will that they do,
Elizabeth Hoyt
#96. You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.
Gloria Naylor
#97. Those who can't teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.
Diane Ravitch
#98. Don't teach me how to live. I'm wicked now. I have money. But I'm magnanimous. I'll give you twenty rubles and three days to sack the city! I'm like Suvorov! Plunder the city, Kisa! Have fun!
Ilya Ilf
#99. In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don't teach either.
Cleveland Amory
#100. None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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