Tea Quotes
No need to teach an eagle to fly.Greek Prove
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.Woody Allen
Ah, Hope what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to - Day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.La Rochefoucauld
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.James A. Garfield
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.Anatole France, The Red Lily, 1894, chapter 7
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.A Bartlett Giamatti
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.Nikola Tesla, Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934
The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.Otto Kleppne
No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.Cicero
The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.Lee Iacocca
Much learning does not teach understanding.Heraclitus, On the Universe
The city is the teacher of the man.Simondes of Ceos
God said: you must teach, as I taught, without a fee.The Talmud
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.William Hazlitt
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - - The things we live by and teach our children - - Are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.Walt Disney
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.Maria Montessori
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.Will Durant
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.Napolean Hill
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.Gordon R. Dickson
When you learn, teach. When you get, give.Maya Angelou
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.Blaise Pascal
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.Horace Mann
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.Abraham Lincoln
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.Anonymous
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.John Mason Good
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.Diana Rankin
Patriotism is not a short outburst of emotion, but is the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.Oscar Wilde
Live to the point of tears.Albert Camus
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.Publilius Syrus
I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks.Anne Frank, from The Diary of a Young Girl, January 5, 1944
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self - Distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.Amos Bronson Alcott
Time as he grows old teaches all things.Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.Tryon Edwards
