Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Barton

If you are going to do anything, you must expect criticism. But it's better to be a doer than a critic. The doer moves; the critic stands still, and is passed by.

Ben Mendelsohn

I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

Barbara Johnson

Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.

Barbara Kruger

The different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.

Barbara Jordan

I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.

Barbara Mertz

The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.

Art Garfunkel

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

Aristotle

Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

Aristotle

All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

Aristotle

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Whatever oppressions man has suffered, they have invariably fallen more heavily on woman. Whatever new liberties advancing civilization has brought to man, ever the smallest measure has been accorded to woman, as a result of church teaching. The effect of this is seen in every department of life.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

Dom Starsia

When you watch Canadian kids [Box Lacrosse Players] score, when you see their skill level around the cage, you wonder to yourself, 'Jeez, are we teaching kids [in the U.S.] the wrong things?

Dick York

When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.

Dave Ramsey

Teaching kids about money is never just about money.

Ai-jen Poo

Living longer is about loving longer, learning longer, teaching longer, connecting longer, if we figure out the supports and infrastructure to make all of that possible — and it is completely within reach.

Aaron Eckhart

I like doing movies with kids in them, and you're explaining things. They're teaching you and you're teaching them, and the audience can loop through that.

Richard King

Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.

Jeffrey Gitomer

It never ceases to amaze me that companies will spend thousands of hours and millions of dollars teaching people 'how to sell,' and not one minute or not $10 on 'why they buy.' And 'why they buy' is all that matters.

Marshall McLuhan

Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.

Ali Khamenei

The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.

Abraham Verghese

He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.

Alison Gopnik

Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.

Abraham Flexner

There are men that teach best by not teaching at all.

Abraham Maslow

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.

Albert Einstein

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Alfred North Whitehead

The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.

Alfred North Whitehead

In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.

Albert Pike

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .

Albert Pike

Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion.

Albert Einstein

In talking about human rights today, we are referring primarily to the following demands: protection of the individual against arbitrary infringement by other individuals or by the government; the right to work and to adequate earnings from work; freedom of discussion and teaching; adequate participation of the individual in the formation of his government. These human rights are nowadays recognised theoretically, although, by abundant use of formalistic, legal manoeuvres, they are being violated to a much greater extent than even a generation ago.

Albert Einstein

It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of teaching have not yet entirely strangled that sacred spirit of curiosity and inquiry, for this delicate plant needs freedom no less than stimulation.

Albert Einstein

In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as "primitive.