Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Brown

See. There's a lot of teaching going on out there. That's where it all begins.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I do not know what the future holds. I do not wish to sound negative, but I wish to remind you of the warnings of scripture and the teachings of the prophets which we have had constantly before us.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.

Jeremy Collier

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Jeff Goldblum

I'm a humble student of acting myself and part of that studentship is teaching.

Jean Toomer

One may receive the information but miss the teaching.

Jean Vanier

I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and aid us in becoming more truly human.

Jim Gaffigan

A lot of the teachings really kind of keep me grounded.

Jeffrey Rosen

Why I find Louis Brandeis so exciting and inspiring because he's teaching us - good legal writing is not a matter of taste, it's a matter of connection with fellow citizens and of democratic education.

Jean Houston

It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous capacities of the human condition.

James Carville

The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.

Jackie Tabick

We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.

Fritz Zwicky

To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he become frustrated. The same outlook applies to the genius of the peoples as a whole.

Frederic Bastiat

It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly due to a fatal desire-learned from the teachings of antiquity-that our writers on public affairs have in common: They desire to set themselves above mankind in order to arrange, organize, and regulate it according to their fancy.

Franklin Pierce

You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.

Franz Boas

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be

Franz Boas

Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative value of all forms of culture, and thus serves as a check to an exaggerated valuation of the standpoint of our own period, which we are only too liable to consider the ultimate goal of human evolution, thus depriving ourselves of the benefits to be gained from the teachings of other cultures and hindering an objective criticism of our own work.

Georges Clemenceau

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.

Georges Clemenceau

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

George Will

In the annals of American blunders, the Bay of Pigs may have been even more feckless, and the invasion of Iraq more costly, but we cannot yet calculate the cost of teaching Iran and others, by our role in the casual overthrow of Moammar Gaddafi, the peril of not having nuclear weapons.

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.

Jean Piaget

The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods the more difficult they are to apply.

Jean Piaget

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

Jim Henson

Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.

Jim Harrison

I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.

Jim Harrison

I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.

Hippocrates

The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it

Evan Esar

A lecturer often makes you feel dumb at one end and numb at the other.

Evan Esar

Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.

Evan Esar

The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself.

Eugene H. Peterson

I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

Eugene H. Peterson

I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.