Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giacomo Leopardi

The greater part of the people we assign to educate our sons we know for certain are not educated. Yet we do not doubt that they can give what they have not received, a thing which cannot be otherwise acquired.

Jim DeMint

If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind.

Jess Walter

I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to 'American Idol.'

Jenna Bush

I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.

Frank Herbert

Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.

Frank Herbert

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

P. J. O'Rourke

The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.

Paul Brunton

This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity, because it tries to provide the conditions wherein we are able to yield ourselves to intuitive leadings, promptings, warnings, teachings, and counsels and also to the inspiring peace of the soul. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.

Paul Cezanne

Personally I would like to have pupils, a studio, pass on my love to them, work with them, without teaching them anything.. ..A convent, a monastery, a phalanstery of painting where one could train together.. ..but no programme, no instruction in painting.. ..drawing is still alright, it doesn't count, but painting - the way to learn is to look at the masters, above all at nature, and to watch other people painting..

Patricia Reilly Giff

I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.

Louis L'Amour

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

Lorrie Moore

Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.

Michael Jackson

Each day I take time out to study the Bible, no matter where I am. The teachings of the Bible have added a new dimension to my life. It, somehow, makes me whole.

Michael Crichton

But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching.

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.

Erno Rubik

In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.

Erykah Badu

I'm a product of its [american] teaching, of its thinking, of its -isms, of its religion, of its education. I am conditioned, raised and developed by America; I am America. And as it changes, my thoughts also change. Because no matter what I believe, what the powers-that-be believe will affect me.

Erykah Badu

I don't think it matters what school you go to, but I think it's important for parents to be involved. And to know that when school stops, learning continues, and to continue teaching at home.

Erykah Badu

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

Ernest Holmes

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

Helen Keller

True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

Cassandra Clare

I've got the Mark of Cain," said Simon. "That means nothing can kill me, right?" "You can kill yourself," Magnus said, somewhat unhelpfully. "As far as I know, inanimate objects can accidentally kill you. So if you were planning on teaching yourself the lambada on a greased platform over a pit full of knives, I wouldn't." "There goes my Saturday.

Geoffrey Canada

Let's stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student.

Geoffrey Chaucer

First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

Gabe Newell

It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope.

Fred Allen

Success is like dealing with your kid or teaching your wife to drive. Sooner or later you'll end up in the police station.