Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harold B. Lee

Missionary work is but home teaching to those who are not now members of the Church, and home teaching is nothing more or less than missionary work to Church members

Haile Selassie

There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings...

Jean de la Bruyere

Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently.

C. Everett Koop

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Librarians are teaching the next generation how to use digital media responsibly.

Paul Samuelson

Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.

Pat Conroy

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

Jud Wilhite

Jarrid Wilson has a passion and heart for God that is contagious. His genuine faith comes through powerfully in his teaching and writing. 30 Words points to the God of all wonder and grace in a way that will expand your faith and experience of God.

Paul Prudhomme

One of my missions was to teach.

Paul R. Ehrlich

Stanford may be the best university in the world, but you can get all the way through here without knowing where your food came from, without being able to say where we came from, without being able to give a coherent description of why the climate is changing and why we should be concerned about it. So I started teaching a course in human evolution and the environment that's open to all Stanford students, no prerequisites.

Paul Gascoigne

A boy is better unborn than untaught.

Paul Gauguin

Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!

Patrick Rothfuss

I loved college. I wish I was still taking classes instead of teaching them.

Patrick Rothfuss

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

Patrick Rothfuss

I was pretty poor for a long time. Not *poor* poor. But college student poor. I lived for most of my adult life living on student wages, then after I got my MA and started teaching, I lived on teacher's wages, which isn't much better.

Lillian Hellman

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.

John Grisham

It's a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them.

John Green

I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!

Pat Summitt

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.

Ovid

It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. Fas est ab hoste doceri.

Paul Farmer

The model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service is what's missing in global health.

Paul Brown

I'm not a big TV watcher, but I know that Discovery is a teaching network. And they've been so awesome to me, I love those people.

Paul Bloom

For the most part, people use "empathy" to mean everything good. For instance, many medical schools have courses in empathy. But if you look at what they mean, they just want medical students to be nicer to their patients, to listen to them, to respect them, to understand them. What's not to like? If they were really teaching empathy, then I'd say there is a world of problems there.

Marya Hornbacher

When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you're writing about?

Marguerite Young

I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.

Oswald Chambers

Our Lord’s teaching is always anti-self-realization. His purpose is not the development of a man; His purpose is to make a man exactly like Himself, and the characteristic of the Son of God is self-expenditure.

Oswald Chambers

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

Oswald Chambers

Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is - Never look for justice, but never cease to give it.

Mo Ibrahim

The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.

R. C. Sproul

When people ask me to name the Ligonier teaching material they should use to help them grow; I tell them, 'You should start with The Holiness of God.'

Pranab Mukherjee

Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.

Pope Paul VI

There are those who ask what authority, what theological qualification, the Council intended to give to its teachings, knowing that it avoided issuing solemn dogmatic definitions backed by the Church's infallible teaching authority. The answer is known by those who remember the conciliar declaration of March 6, 1964, repeated on November 16, 1964. In view of the pastoral nature of the Council, it avoided proclaiming in an extraordinary manner any dogmata carrying the mark of infallibility.

Pope Paul VI

The Catholic Church holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include: the example recorded in the Sacred Scriptures of Christ choosing His apostles only from among men; the constant practice of the Church, which has imitated Christ in choosing only men; and her living teaching authority which has consistently held that the exclusion of women from the priesthood is in accordance with God's plan for His Church.