Tea Quotes

What is it the Bible teaches us? - Rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.

Emmet Fox

It is easy to bring others down to your level, Instead of bringing yourself up to their level, But it is never ever right.

Unknown

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Benjamin Jowett

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Unknown

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Hermann Hesse

Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction.

Kabbalah

I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.

Mavette Sadile

A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Ernest Leroy Boye

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty - - Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Wendell Phillips

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Oscar Wilde

Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

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

The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.

Indian Prove

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Woody Allen

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

Bertrand Russell

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.

Belle Livingstone

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Socrates

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

Anonymous

Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments.

Saville

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

Carl Jung

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

Albert Guinon

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

C. S. Robinson

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler - - And less trouble.

Mark Twain

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

Sir George Savile

The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical.

Donald G. Smith

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

John Burroughs

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self - Distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

Amos Bronson Alcott

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Whitney Moore, Jr.

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984

He who teaches children learns more than they do.

German Prove

Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia.

Jerry Coleman

I do borrow from other writers, shamelessly I can only say in my defense, like the woman brought before the judge on a charge of kleptomania, I do steal, but, your Honor, only from the very best stores.

Thornton

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Maria Montessori

The acquisition of knowledge is the mission of research, the transmission of knowledge is the mission of teaching and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service.

James A. Perkins