513 private quotes tagged teacher

“In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.” — Dalai Lama

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“Those who know how to think need no teachers.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” — Albert Einstein

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“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.” — Albert Camus

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

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“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.” — Lee Iacocca

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“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.” — Bill Gates

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“The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.” — Bill Gates

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“The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.” — Warren Buffett

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“I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.” — Jack Welch

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“Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.” — Suze Orman

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“I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.” — Whitney Houston

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“One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.” — Carl Jung

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“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.” — Anatole France

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“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.” — Khalil Gibran

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“What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.” — Helen Keller

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“Love is a better teacher than duty.” — Albert Einstein

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“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Experience is the teacher of all things.” — Julius Caesar

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“A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.” — James S. Coleman

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“I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.” — Woody Allen

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“If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.” — Confucius

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