I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau

People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.
Mitch Hedberg

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Lao Tzu

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
John Adams

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Plato

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
Karl Marx

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Leo Buscaglia

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.
Ernest Holmes

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

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
William Blake

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Niccolo Machiavelli

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
Tom Landry

Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.
Gilda Radner

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
John Locke

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
Richard Dawkins

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Swami Vivekananda