Tea Quotes

Gordon r. dickson - some people like my advice so much that they...
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Donna bulge - to teach well is to believe in what and whom you...
By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.
Latin Prove
A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.
Ernest Leroy Boye
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
Much learning does not teach understanding.
Heraclitus, On the Universe
The things that will destroy America are prosperity - At - Any - Price, safety - First instead of duty - First, the love of soft living, and the get - Rich - Quick theory of life.
Theodore Roosevelt
A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert A. Heinlein
One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.
Franklin Thomas
Human beings are full of emotion, and the teacher who knows how to use it will have dedicated learners. It means sending dominant signals instead of submissive ones with your eyes, body and voice.
Leon Lessinge
The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Sigmund Freud, (Attributed)
No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
Cicero
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
Peter Cochrane
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Bible, Colossians 3: 16
To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.
Garrison Keillo
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William A. Ward
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
George Bernard Shaw, "St. Joan".
Slow and steady wins the race.
Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise
It is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.
Adolf Hitle
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
Voltaire
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
Evelyn Underhill
My tears stuck in their little ducts, refusing to be jerked.
Peter Stack, in a movie review in the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan 2, 1983
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
C. S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.
Charles A. Cerami
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Edith Ann
Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.
Robin Williams
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Denis Watley
It is very strange that the years teach us patience - That the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
Elizabeth Taylor, "A Wreath of Roses".
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.
Vernon Law
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
Albert Einstein
Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.
Jerry Coleman
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
Thomas Carruthers
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.
Author Unknown
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
Dag Hammarskjld
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.
William John Bennett
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
Saint Bernard, Epistle
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.
Sylvia Ashton - Warne