Tea Quotes

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.

W. Somerset Maugham

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

Sir George Savile

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Whoever cares to learn will always find a teacher.

German prove

History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

Gore Vidal

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.

Stanley Lindquist

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940

You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Samuel Johnson

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Marie Curie

There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.

C. S. Robinson

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator.

Johann von Goethe

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.

Beryl Pfize

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.

Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Joseph Addison

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan, CEO, E*Trade Group Inc.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?

Alan Perlis

Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel persecution of todays society and become what they are seen as instead of who they really are. A person, just like everyone else.

Unknown

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

William Ellery Channing

Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms.

Prophet Muhammad, Muslim

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Edmund Burke, Speech to the electors of Bristol. 3 Nov. 1774

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

Robert Francis Kennedy

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.

Anonymous

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.

Edgar Albert Guest

The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.

Otto Kleppne

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

Kahlil Gibran

Instead of trying to build newer and bigger weapons of destruction, mankind should be thinking about getting more use out of the weapons we already have.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

Tryon Edwards

The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mark Twain

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him of the entire weekend.

Zenna Schaffe

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

What experience and history teach is this - That nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Immature poets imitate mature poets steal.

T. S. Eliot

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

Socrates