Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
Bertrand Russell

Much learning does not teach understanding.
Heraclitus

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
Carter G. Woodson

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Hermann Hesse

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
William Faulkner

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

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
Sophocles

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
William James

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
Thomas Huxley

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
Thomas Huxley

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
Thomas Huxley

Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.
Hedy Lamarr

The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.
Neale Donald Walsch

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
Samuel Johnson

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
Garrison Keillor

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
Walter Winchell