Tea Quotes

A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.
Louis A. Berman
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Tryon Edwards
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years
La rochefoucauld - ah, hope what would life be, stripped of thy...
Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.
W. L. George
Science... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
Thomas Huxley
We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.
Whitney Moore, Jr.
My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso.
Pablo Piccaso
Diana rankin - instead of thinking about where you are, think...
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.
Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
Oscar Wilde
If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.
James Barrie
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Gordon R. Dickson
History knows no resting places and no plateaus.
Henry Kissinge
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
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
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
John Burroughs
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. On the Vietnam Wa.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allen Poe
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 - Warner, Spinste
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.
Unknown
Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar Wilde
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. Forste
Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms.
Prophet Muhammad, Muslim
Wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.
John Knowles
Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
Eric Bentley
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.
Charles Richte
Thou shall not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, thou shall steal and thou must.
Branch Rickey/ Dogers GM (1943 - 50)
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
America, why are your libraries full of tears?
Allen Ginsberg
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Cecil B. DeMille
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
Bruce Lee
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
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
Heraclitus
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
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - Instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense.
E. W. Dijkstra
To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.
Mitchell Caplan, CEO, E*Trade Group Inc.
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.
Joseph Conrad