Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.
I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teach myself to live again.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teachers for living well.
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
All men are made one for another: either teach them better, or bear with them.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Experience is the teacher of all things.
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
Fools’ teacher is not logic but calamity.
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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.
Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing.
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.
It is necessary that the child teach himself, and then the success is great.
Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.
Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
When you think something is beautiful and useful it has to be defended, I believe that the crisis in the teaching of Greek hides a much deeper problem, the crisis of literary teaching in general.
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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.
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.