Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacques Derrida

If you read philosophical texts of the tradition, you'll notice they almost never said 'I,' and didn't speak in the first person. From Aristotle to Heidegger, they try to consider their own lives as something marginal or accidental. What was essential was their teaching and their thinking. Biography is something empirical and outside, and is considered an accident that isn't necessarily or essentially linked to the philosophical activity or system.

Jacques Barzun

The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do before. I say do and not know, because knowledge that doesn't lead to doing something new or doing something better is not knowledge at all.

Iyanla Vanzant

I'm focusing on healing lives and teaching people that they can heal - giving them tools to heal.

Iyanla Vanzant

When anyone makes comments that are offensive to you, would you be willing to do the teaching?

Isaac Asimov

Suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details?

Ellen DeGeneres

I don't know who had the bright idea of teaching pneumonia how to walk, but I'd like to find that dunderhead before he decides he wants to teach it how to drive.

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.

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.

Christina Hoff Sommers

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

Gilbert Highet

Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

George Washington Carver

You can't teach people anything. You can only draw out.

George Washington

To the security of a free Constitution it [knowledge] contributes in various ways: by teaching the people themselves to know and to value their own rights, to discern and provide against invasions of them, to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority, between burdens proceeding from a disregard to their convenience and those resulting from the inevitable exigencies of society.

George Mikes

Israelis keep teaching you your own business. God knows everything but the Israelis know everything better.

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.

Geoffrey Canada

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

Geoffrey Chaucer

First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.