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

Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
Thomas Carlyle

Much learning does not teach understanding.
Heraclitus

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

Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.
Jose Marti

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

My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'
Paula Poundstone

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

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.
Galileo Galilei

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Galileo Galilei

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
Toni Morrison

Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.
Vivienne Westwood

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.
John Updike

I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.
Martha Stewart

I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.
John Cleese

Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.
Douglas Horton

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

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