Famous Quotes & Sayings

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

William Shakespeare

Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

Dominique Moceanu

We need to educate our elite coaches more and have a better approach to teaching the athletes about how to be healthy rather than berate them, humiliate them, use tactics that could scar them for life.

Don Cheadle

Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.

Dianna Agron

I didn't take the typical path and go to college after high school. Instead, I saved up money from teaching dance classes and moved to L.A. But my family was so supportive - I never felt pressure from them. It's crucial to find a support system, even if it's not your family.

Devon Sawa

I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.

Dexter Fletcher

My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of Les Miserables in France with Anthony Perkins. There I was at 12 acting with the guy from Psycho. My parents were teachers, and it was hard for them to relate to that world.

Dhani Harrison

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

David Brooks

The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline. The teachers who do that get remembered.

David Allen

Frankly, I'm more of a researcher, teacher,motivat or, and coach than I am an entrepreneur.

Anne Sullivan

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

Albert Schweitzer

The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when it had found Him it could bring Him straight into our time as a Teacher and Saviour. ... But He does not stay; He passes by our time and returns to His own... He returned to His own time, not owing to the application of any historical ingenuity, but by the same inevitable necessity by which the liberated pendulum returns to its original position.

Richard G. Scott

Do not become so absorbed with trivial things that you miss learning the doctrine and teachings of the Lord.

Richard G. Scott

Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master.

Susan B. Anthony

Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?

Susan B. Anthony

A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people

Brian Weiss

Eventually we will all understand that all wisdom is within us, and as we remember, practice and access this wisdom, we will become our own best teacher.

Brian Eno

When I was at art college, the teachers who helped me were not the ones I agreed with, or the ones who encouraged me, but the ones who took very strong positions. Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don't agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it - or chuck it away if they don't want it.

Brian Eno

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.

Bret Harte

Besides writing, I have been teaching myself to 'develop' my own photographic plates, and I haven't a stick of clothing or an exposed finger that isn't stained. I sit for hours in a dark-room feeling as if I were a very elderly Faust at some dreadful incantation, and come out of it, blinding at the light, like a Bastille prisoner. And yet I am not successful!

Bram Stoker

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

Boris Kodjoe

I'm always an entrepreneur, but I'd probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that's tennis on the courts or history in the classroom.

Bobby Knight

I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.

Bobby Knight

A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.

Bob Dylan

Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.

Billy Connolly

I can't believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.

Bodhidharma

I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.

Bodhidharma

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

Bruce Coville

The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

Bruce Fein

History teaches that nations do not learn from history.

Bruce Dickinson

Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.

Brigitte Bardot

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

Brendan Gleeson

I loved teaching. And I always used to say that acting was just something I did purely on my own terms, and that if I had to make a living from it there would be too much pressure.