Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
J. Edgar Hoover

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

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

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Samuel Butler

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
Tommy Lasorda

I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.
Roy Lichtenstein

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
David Suzuki

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

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
Charles Kettering

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
Charles Kettering

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
Aristophanes

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
Nikki Giovanni

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
Simone Weil

When I teach people, I marry them.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Doris Lessing

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.
Ziggy Marley

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.
Tony Campolo