Tea Quotes

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Bruce Lee

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

Maria Montessori

The things that will destroy America are prosperity - At - Any - Price, safety - First instead of duty - First, the love of soft living, and the get - Rich - Quick theory of life.

Theodore Roosevelt

In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.

Haniel Long

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Gordon R. Dickson

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 wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

John Lubbock

History knows no resting places and no plateaus.

Henry Kissinge

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

Sophocles, Antigone

The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second - Rate art of imitation.

Stephen Neill

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Sigmund Freud, (Attributed)

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

Amos Bronson Alcott

You cannot teach a man anything. you can only help him to find it for himself.

Galileo Galilei

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1898

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Louis - Hector Berlioz

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

Socrates

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

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

Henri Frdric Amiel

Live truth instead of professing it.

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead.

George Bernard Shaw

As you teach, you learn.

Jewish Prove

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

Walter Winchell

Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

Vernon Law

The acquisition of knowledge is the mission of research, the transmission of knowledge is the mission of teaching and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service.

James A. Perkins

Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards.

Vernon Suanders Law, Chicken Soup for the Teenage soul: Tough Stuff

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

If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.

Francis Bacon

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

Peretz Smolenskin

Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.

Albert Smith

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)

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

John N. Mitchell

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.

Sylvia Ashton - Warne

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

To teach is to learn twice.

Jeseph Joubert