Tea Quotes
Much learning does not teach understanding.Heraclitus, On the Universe
Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - - That doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.Buddha
Misanthropes need people without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art.Polly Whitney
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.Unknown
Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia.Jerry Coleman
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie.Alexander Pope, "Ode to Solitude".
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.James A. Garfield
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
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.George MacDonald
Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!William Shakespeare
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.Gordon R. Dickson
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.Louis A. Berman
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.Warren Bennis
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.Sophocles, Antigone
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves.Johann von Goethe
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion.John Anthony Ciardi
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.Virginia Woolf
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.Abraham Lincoln
Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.Samuel Johnson
As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood", 1803
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.Warren Bennis
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - - Steadily building.Robert J. Collie
Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults - Yet faults tear away the perfection in you.Mary Ross
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists".
Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.Eric Bentley
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!Othello
Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.George Eliot
You know what I say to people when I hear they? re writing an anti - war book?? I say, why don? t you write an anti - Glacier book instead? What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter - House 5
Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.Vince Lombardi
A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water.Mae West
No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.Isadora Duncan, The Sensational Life of Isadora Duncan
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.Victor Daniels
