Top teaching Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of teaching quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Jandy Nelson
But then I think about my sister and what a shell-less turtle she was and how she wanted me to be one too. C'mon, Lennie, she used to say to me at least ten times a day. C'mon Len. And that makes me feel better, like it's her life rather than her death that is now teaching me how to be, who to be.
- Jandy Nelson
Collection: Teaching
Image of L. Tom Perry
When we have the Spirit to direct us, we are capable of teaching with great power.
- L. Tom Perry
Collection: Teaching
Image of Abraham Verghese
He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.
- Abraham Verghese
Collection: Teaching
Image of Elie Wiesel
Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
- Elie Wiesel
Collection: Teaching
Image of Marva Collins
When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.
- Marva Collins
Collection: Teaching
Image of Anna Deavere Smith
You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.
- Anna Deavere Smith
Collection: Teaching
Image of Horace Bushnell
It is the grandeur of Christ's character which constitutes the chief power of His ministry, not His miracles or teachings apart from His character. The greatest triumph of the Gospel is Christ Himself--a human body become the organ of the Divine nature, and revealing, under the conditions of an earthly life, the glory of God.
- Horace Bushnell
Collection: Teaching
Image of Ludwig Feuerbach
Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life, by teaching him to trust in God’s help it took away his trust in his own powers; by giving him faith in a better life in heaven, it destroyed his faith in a better life on earth and his striving to attain such a life. Christianity gave man what his imagination desires, but for that very reason failed to give him what he really and truly desires.
- Ludwig Feuerbach
Collection: Teaching
Image of Vidal Sassoon
If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further.
- Vidal Sassoon
Collection: Teaching
Image of Bruce R. McConkie
I do not know all of the providences of the Lord, but I do know that he permits false doctrine to be taught in and out of the Church and that such teaching is part of the sifting process of mortality
- Bruce R. McConkie
Collection: Teaching
Image of Franklin Pierce
You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.
- Franklin Pierce
Collection: Teaching
Image of N. T. Wright
What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.
- N. T. Wright
Collection: Teaching
Image of David Suzuki
How you imagine the world determines how you live in it.
- David Suzuki
Collection: Teaching
Image of Hannah More
How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform; to entertain, when they might instruct; and to dazzle for an hour, when they are candidates for eternity!
- Hannah More
Collection: Teaching
Image of Edward Said
Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it: in short, Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.
- Edward Said
Collection: Teaching
Image of George Benson
I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument.
- George Benson
Collection: Teaching
Image of Frederick Salomon Perls
Teaching means to show a person that something is possible.
- Frederick Salomon Perls
Collection: Teaching
Image of Cynthia Voigt
I got used to being a writer. To compare it to teaching - I taught for twenty-five years; for the first two or three years it was heady. I was discovering that I could do something and do it well. Be useful to people. It was exhilarating, sort of like the first two weeks of being in love with somebody, and then it becomes like the third bite of pizza. The first bite is wonderful. The second bite is not disappointing. The third? Meh. You get used to it.
- Cynthia Voigt
Collection: Teaching
Image of J.R. Miller
It is impossible to estimate full influence of the reading of the Word in a home day after day and year after year. It filters into the hearts of the young. It is absorbed into their souls. It colors all their thoughts. It is wrought into the very fiber of their minds. It imbues them with its own spirit. It’s holy teachings become the principles of their lives, which rule their conduct and shape all their actions.
- J.R. Miller
Collection: Teaching
Image of Chloe Grace Moretz
I truly hope you realize how important setting goals are for young women, teaching them we have so much more to offer than our bodies.
- Chloe Grace Moretz
Collection: Teaching
Image of John Brunner
To go faster you must slow down.
- John Brunner
Collection: Teaching
Image of John Wilmot
I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.
- John Wilmot
Collection: Teaching
Image of Jean Piaget
Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.
- Jean Piaget
Collection: Teaching
Image of Surya Das
Contributing to others, not converting others, but for those who are interested, going where invited, speaking when asked, teaching when asked and so on, not proselytizing and missionary-izing. Not shoving the truth down people's throats, as if we know what's good for them. But being open when asked, when appropriate, and being very inclusive and open minded.
- Surya Das
Collection: Teaching
Image of Dennis Prager
There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.
- Dennis Prager
Collection: Teaching
Image of Dorothy L. Sayers
For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching them to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and the radio, we have made certain that no aversion to reading shall secure them from the incessant battery of words, words, words. They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Collection: Teaching
Image of Tsugumi Ohba
Nobody can tell what is right and what is wrong; what is righteous and what is evil. Even if there is a god and I had his teachings right before me, I would think it through and decide if that was right or wrong myself.
- Tsugumi Ohba
Collection: Teaching
Image of Jonas Salk
Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must define and discover. You don't invent the answer-you reveal the answer.
- Jonas Salk
Collection: Teaching
Image of B. F. Skinner
That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
- B. F. Skinner
Collection: Teaching
Image of Pete Seeger
Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.
- Pete Seeger
Collection: Teaching
Image of Pam Houston
Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.
- Pam Houston
Collection: Teaching
Image of Venerable Bede
I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.
- Venerable Bede
Collection: Teaching
Image of George S. Patton
To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Muhammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have kept on developing.
- George S. Patton
Collection: Teaching
Image of John Dufresne
What you create when you're teaching fiction writing is a kind of literary salon, not a social club or a mutual admiration society, not a debating society, not a repair shop, not a fight club or a soap box. It's a place to have a conversation about a story.
- John Dufresne
Collection: Teaching
Image of Parker J. Palmer
For me, teaching is about weaving a web of connectedness between myself, my students, the subject I'm teaching, and the larger world.
- Parker J. Palmer
Collection: Teaching
Image of Julia Glass
Writing fiction is a resolutely solitary pastime, and I love being with people, so the public side of being an author is, to me, the reward for all the private time invested. And I love teaching to a fault; I have a hard time not giving away a lot of my own writing energy to my students.
- Julia Glass
Collection: Teaching
Image of Vladimir Putin
People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.
- Vladimir Putin
Collection: Teaching
Image of Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.
- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Collection: Teaching
Image of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Collection: Teaching
Image of Agnes Repplier
Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
- Agnes Repplier
Collection: Teaching
Image of Hugh Howey
Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.
- Hugh Howey
Collection: Teaching
Image of Benazir Bhutto
In distinguishing between Islamic teachings and social taboos, we must remember that Islam forbids injustice; Injustice against people, against nations, against women. It shuns race, color, and gender as a basis of distinction amongst fellowmen. It enshrines piety as the sole criteria for judging humankind.
- Benazir Bhutto
Collection: Teaching
Image of Terence
In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.
- Terence
Collection: Teaching
Image of Alfred Molina
I've always loved teaching acting. I think it helps me to kind of get back to basics. It's like a refresher course for me as well, so in a sense, I'm hopefully learning as much as my students are - or at least discovering or re-discovering as much as they are. I find that when I teach, I'm reminded of my own sort of failings. I'm reminded of where I sometimes keep going wrong.
- Alfred Molina
Collection: Teaching
Image of Ellen G. White
We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.
- Ellen G. White
Collection: Teaching
Image of Paul Orfalea
If I reformed school, I would do two things: We can improve a child's IQ by three percent by teaching them a foreign language by seven-years-old. We shouldn't be waiting until high school when they are neurologically not ready to learn it. Second, we emphasize reading too young.
- Paul Orfalea
Collection: Teaching
Image of Phil Robertson
My mission today is to go forth and tell people about why I follow Christ and also what the bible teaches, and part of that teaching is that women and men are meant to be together.
- Phil Robertson
Collection: Teaching
Image of Morgan Llywelyn
teaching meant for the hands enters most easily through the eyes.
- Morgan Llywelyn
Collection: Teaching
Image of Peter Tosh
Because everyone who try a-go to church, and they were trying to teach but they weren't teaching, they was brainwashing. Since I would never call that teaching.
- Peter Tosh
Collection: Teaching