Teacher Quotes - page 21

It is an amazing thing that our memory best retains images of great philosophers when their lives were coming to an end. Socrates raising the chalice with hemlock to his mouth, Seneca whose veins were opened by a slave (there is a painting of this by Rubens), Descartes roaming cold palace rooms with a foreboding that his role of teacher of the Swedish Queen would be his last, old Kant smelling a grated horseradish before his daily walk (the cane preceding him, sinking deeper and deeper into the sand), Spinoza consumed by tuberculosis and patiently polishing lenses, so weak he is unable to finish his Treatise on the Rainbow. (Baruch Spinoza)
There is more to be learned from any good teacher than the subject taught. View quote
Gene Wolfe
The best teacher in life is experience. View quote
LeBron James
Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands. View quote
Brigitte Bardot
When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history. View quote
George J. Mitchell
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. View quote
William Osler
If a man strictly observe the rules of his way, and keep a rein on himself, then no matter what way it be, he will be a scholar of renown and be a teacher of multitudes. View quote
Yoshida Kenkō
I was an elementary school teacher. View quote
Luciano Pavarotti
Do not demand love. Begin to love. You will be loved. It is the law and no statute can alter it. If we do not follow the law, and let the law die with the teacher, we shall become accomplices to the murderer. But if follow the law with our hearts, [Bapu] will live with us and through us. View quote
C. Rajagopalachari
He said-let me get this right-he said that among the chief reasons we can't cope with the consequence of our own ingenuity is that whenever a genuinely open-minded teacher tries to pass that attitude on to his pupils, the entrenched authorities grow frightened and shut his mouth. View quote
John Brunner
Epicurus, the great teacher of happiness, has correctly and finely divided human needs into three classes. First there are the natural and necessary needs which, if they are not satisfied, cause pain. Consequently, they are only victus et amictus [food and clothing] and are easy to satisfy. Then we have those that are natural yet not necessary, that is, the needs for sexual satisfaction. ... These needs are more difficult to satisfy. Finally, there are those that are neither natural nor necessary, the needs for luxury, extravagance, pomp, and splendour, which are without end and very difficult to satisfy. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. View quote
Helen Keller
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. View quote
Helen Keller
He that could teach mathematics well, would not be a bad teacher in any of the rest [physics, chemistry, biology, psychology] unless by the accident of total inaptitude for experimental illustration; while the mere experimentalist is likely to fall into the error of missing the essential condition of science as reasoned truth; not to speak of the danger of making the instruction an affair of sensation, glitter, or pyrotechnic show. View quote
Alexander Bain
For what sense or understanding have they? They follow minstrels and take the multitude for a teacher, not knowing that many are bad and few good. For the best men choose one thing above all-immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle. View quote
Heraclitus
There is no God-Creator, but there is the Cosmos, which creates suns, planets and living beings. There is no omnipotent God, but there is the Universe, which governs the fates of all celestial bodies and their inhabitants. There are no sons of God, but there are mature and thus rational and perfect sons of the Cosmos. There are no personal gods, but there are elected leaders of planets, solar systems, stellar groups, milky ways, islands of ether and the whole Cosmos. There is no Christ, but there is a brilliant man and a greater teacher of mankind. View quote
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
All the major teachers have told us that we should love our neighbors as ourselves and that we should love God with all of our heart. They have also told us that this world is not our original home. It is no accident that such diverse yet harmonious teachers have made this consistent, universal presentation. Consider how similar their messages have been: not one major prophet, not one bona fide teacher has said that this world is our home. Instead, these teachers have constantly emphasized that the kingdom of God is the real home that we seek. They are not just trying to get us to be escapists and run away from life. Instead, they are trying to bring us back to reality and to help us escape from this material prison. Although they come from diverse traditions, their message is the same. View quote
Bhakti Tirtha Swami
Every time a teacher leaves her classroom in Paris to put up osters of Ségolène France is illuminated. View quote
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
learning 's a gift, even when "pain", s your teacher! View quote
Michael Jordan
I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher. View quote
Mark Ruffalo
He that first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defense against a knave, was but an ill teacher, advising us to commit wickedness to secure ourselves. (Plutarch)
School was strange, rather amusing - with a teacher standing at the front telling you what to write. The camaraderie was interesting. I tend to remember the things you can't recreate on your own - queuing up for your dinner, learning team games, which were a complete mystery to me. I remember having to pretend I knew how to play hockey, that kind of thing. View quote
Joanna MacGregor
Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka. View quote
Krist Novoselic
Teach both. You know, don't be afraid of information. Healthy debate is so important and it's so valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both. And you know, I say this too as the daughter of a science teacher. Growing up with being so privileged and blessed to be given a lot of information on, on both sides of the subject - creationism and evolution. It's been a healthy foundation for me. But don't be afraid of information and let kids debate both sides. View quote
Sarah Palin
They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice." View quote
Malcolm X