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Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
Bruno Bettelheim

Best, May, Authority

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
Maria Montessori

Men, Learn, Speak

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
Gloria Steinem

Remember, Learn, Across

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
J. K. Rowling

Knowledge, Nothing, Rather

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Horace Mann

Teacher, Learn, Desire

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

Game, Win, Learn

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
Charles Kettering

Failure, Greatest, Find

We teach people how to treat us.
Phil McGraw

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.
Paul McCartney

School, Old, Talk

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Charlie Parker

Music, Art, Experience

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.
Roger Moore

Love, Good, Home

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.
Maimonides

Progress, Tongue, Thou

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!'
Christopher Hitchens

Love, Said, Show

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

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

Children, Give, Taste

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
Angela Davis

Person, Philosophy, Involved

Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!
Bill Owen

Give, Beer, Lifetime

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
Paul Cezanne

Through, Study, Developing

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
Saint Ignatius

Give, Cost, Count

My view is quite simple. When your dog pees on the carpet, you do not give away your dog. You say, This dog is special. I have to teach him not to pee on the carpet. I feel exactly the same way about men. They need to be taught things.
Jacqueline Bisset

Men, Simple, Him

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
Baltasar Gracian

Cannot, Somebody, Excellent

So I said to the gym instructor: 'Can you teach me to do the splits?' He said: 'How flexible are you?' I said: I can't make Tuesdays.'
Tim Vine

Said, Gym, Flexible

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.
Robert Kiyosaki

Fear, Conquer, Higher

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.
Larry King

Morning, Nothing, Learn

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.
Henry A. Wallace

Failure, Spiritual, Democracy

Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?
Jay-Z

Music, Home, Cool

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
John Lubbock

Education, Wise, Learn

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Writing, Water, Ourselves

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
Peter Marshall

Work, Patience, Wait

If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Yourself, Help, Open

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