Tea Quotes

He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

We trained hard, but it seemed that 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.

Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A. D.

The good teacher... discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before.

Stephen Neill

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

Gore Vidal

It is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

When you learn, teach. When you get, give.

Maya Angelou

Immature poets imitate mature poets steal.

T. S. Eliot

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Marie Curie

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood", 1803

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.

Latin Prove

They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?

Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001

Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Samuel Johnson

No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

Warren Bennis

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

Orison Swett Marden

Human beings are full of emotion, and the teacher who knows how to use it will have dedicated learners. It means sending dominant signals instead of submissive ones with your eyes, body and voice.

Leon Lessinge

Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.

Unknown

I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.

Mavette Sadile

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

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

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Prove

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Byrnes

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardne

Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments.

Saville

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

Walter Winchell

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Benjamin Jowett

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public.

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.

George Eliot

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

James Barrie

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 Bennis

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

Chinese prove

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Thou shall not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, thou shall steal and thou must.

Branch Rickey/ Dogers GM (1943 - 50)

The revolution is not a tea party.

Mao Tse - Tung