Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

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Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater. 38 quotes from William Hazlitt

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. 20 quotes from Anatole France

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. 21 quotes from William Wordsworth

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. 22 quotes from Soren Kierkegaard

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. 11 other thoughts from Horace Mann

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. 11 more quotes from Horace Mann

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. 52 more quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. 30 thoughts from Walt Whitman

A good teacher is a determined person. 2 more sayings from Gilbert Highet

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope. 3 quotes from Mary Augusta Ward

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. 2 views from Mark Van Doren

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. 59 other wisdom & wit from Elbert Hubbard

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner. 59 more quotes from Elbert Hubbard

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. 31 quotes from Helen Keller

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health. 2 other sayings from Gilbert Highet

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. 3 thoughts from Gracie Allen

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. 11 sayings from William Osler

Experience is the teacher of all things. 12 other quotes from Julius Caesar

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. 31 quotes from Eric Hoffer

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal. 10 other quotes from Max Beerbohm

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.' 5 quotes from Maria Montessori

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one. 4 other wisdom & wit from Felix Adler

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. 4 other thoughts from Arthur Koestler

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech. 2 sayings from Allan Bloom

Those who know how to think need no teachers. 100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. 100 sayings from Oscar Wilde

Every child grows everything depends on the teacher. 4 other quotes from Shinichi Suzuki

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me. 2 thoughts from Alan Shepard

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher. 3 more sayings from John Philip Sousa

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. 13 wisdom & wit from Amos Bronson Alcott

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust. 3 more views from Gertrude Jekyll

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. 3 views from Hector Berlioz

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. 3 quotes from Sidney Hook

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure. 3 thoughts from Sidney Hook

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. 75 sayings from Aristotle

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. 56 sayings from Khalil Gibran

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. 14 wisdom & wit from William Arthur Ward

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake. 4 other quotes from George Farquhar

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. 9 more quotes from Swami Vivekananda

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake. 4 other thoughts from George Farquhar

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort. 12 wisdom & wit from Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. 4 views from Minna Antrim

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another. 14 quotes from Loretta Young

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds. 4 quotes from Frederick William Robertson

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. 21 thoughts from W. H. Auden

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops. 22 quotes from Henry Adams

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter. 2 views from Wallace Stegner

A teacher is a person who never says anything once. 9 thoughts from Howard Nemerov

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. 14 more sayings from Bertolt Brecht

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher. 31 thoughts from Gertrude Stein

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. 25 other quotes from Simone Weil

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. 45 other quotes from John Ruskin

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. 4 views from Rosa Luxemburg

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. 105 more quotes from Albert Einstein

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible. 3 more views from Josef Albers

Love is a better teacher than duty. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student. 16 other sayings from Henny Youngman

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. 8 views from Dr. Seuss

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. 2 sayings from Simon Newcomb