Tea Quotes

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Charles W. Eliot, The Happy Life, 1896

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

Sophocles, Antigone

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

Frederick William Robertson

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, Adversus Valentinianos

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.

Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee

The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3. 141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.

Fortran manual for Xerox Computers

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Theodore Roosevelt

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.

Virginia Woolf

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Chinese Prove

There are many fine ideals which are not realisable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them.

Peretz Smolenskin

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Edmund Burke, Speech to the electors of Bristol. 3 Nov. 1774

Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.

Biblical Prove

The city is the teacher of the man.

Simondes of Ceos

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

Success is relevant to coping with obstacles... But no problem is ever solved by those, who, when they fail, look for someone to blame instead of something to do.

Fred Waggone

What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Johann von Goethe

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

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Socrates

Always be a first - Rate version of yourself, instead of a second - Rate version of somebody else.

Judy Garland

Power n The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.

Anon.

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

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Evelyn Underhill

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.

James A. Garfield

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Abraham Lincoln

Patriotism is not a short outburst of emotion, but is the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion.

John Anthony Ciardi

Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen - Year - Old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.

Jan Ehrenwald.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.

Vernon Law

It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?

Alan Perlis

A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.

Chinese prove

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Professor Edsger Dijkstra

Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains those who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple.

Marcius Porcius Cato

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Carl Jung

A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Mae West

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Jacques Martin Barzun