Teacher Quotes

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
Gerald Jampolsky

Life, Peace, Mind

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Lily Tomlin

Home, Homework, Besides

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.
Peter Drucker

Person, Teach, Capable

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle

Greatest, After, Become

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
Howard Nemerov

Person, Once, Says

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Alexander the Great

Father, Living, Indebted

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
Thurgood Marshall

Down, Here, Few

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.
Morihei Ueshiba

Wise, Everything, Study

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Soren Kierkegaard

Away, Paradox, Thinker

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.
Lady Gaga

Love, Art, Trying

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Simply, Teaching, Dogmatic

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
W. H. Auden

Sleep, Someone, Else

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
Warren G. Bennis

Found, Mediocrity, Studying

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.
Temple Grandin

Good, Enough, Cannot

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France

Art, Young, Whole

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
John Henrik Clarke

Good, Attention, Hold

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
Bodhidharma

Help, Person, Million

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
Carter G. Woodson

History, Lose, Teaching

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
H. G. Wells

Human, Thought, Jesus

Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.
Rush Limbaugh

Good, Great, Help

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
P. J. O'Rourke

Teachers, Punishment, Schools

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.
Steve Harvey

Great, Failure, Learning

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
Paul Wellstone

Learning, Children, Creativity

We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.
William Glasser

Friendly, Group, Talking

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
William Hazlitt

Great, Adversity, Greater

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