Tea Quotes
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.George Burns
What experience and history teach is this - That nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.Anonymous
The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend? The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, 1860
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.Simone Weil
What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win - win basis.W. Edwards Deming
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.Horace Mann
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.Elbert Hubbard
No need to teach an eagle to fly.Greek Prove
The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical.Donald G. Smith
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.Euripides, Alexande
America, why are your libraries full of tears?Allen Ginsberg
By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.Latin Prove
Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - - That doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.Buddha
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.Abraham Lincoln
We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)
Much learning does not teach understanding.Heraclitus, On the Universe
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.George Bernard Shaw
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.Angela Schwindt
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.Clarence Darrow
It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others - - And less trouble. - Speech, 1906.Mark Twain
If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life.Kwan - Tzu
The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada.Lorne Bloch
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.Aldous Huxley
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.A Bartlett Giamatti
Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel persecution of todays society and become what they are seen as instead of who they really are. A person, just like everyone else.Unknown
Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.Carl Jung
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie.Alexander Pope, "Ode to Solitude".
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.E. M. Forste
An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.Robert Benchley
We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.Saint Thomas Aquinas
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.James A. Garfield
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
As we grow old? the beauty steals inward.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. You see, we BUILD to that.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.Doctor Who
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.Vernon Sanders Law
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.Sacha Guitry
