Teacher Quotes

In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer streams of wisdom flow.

~ Thiruvalluvar

Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the possibilities, and inwardly, it means having the determination to stick with that practice through whatever difficulties and doubts arise until you have come to true clarity and understanding.

~ Jack Kornfield

Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books and look for something else. Doing so, they miss an important and instructive phase of the work. ... A good teacher should understand and impress on his students the view that no problem whatever is completely exhausted.

~ George Pólya

People said experience is the best teacher. Until they found a fact that experience is the worst and most painful teacher.

~ Glad Munaiseche

There is no school or teacher more valuable than your own experiences.

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.

~ Amit Ray

If not for him, I would never have become the man I am today. I ask that you not hold it against him. He meant well

~ Patrick Rothfuss

No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern parent or teacher who tried to force into them a non-comprehending parrot-like apparent competence--a duty and a duty alone--and no hint of magic or beauty of the subject might be allowed to come through.

~ Roger Penrose

Describing Robert Bunsen:As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was greatest.

~ Henry Enfield Roscoe

Well we're waiting here in Allentown,For the Pennsylvania we never found,For the promises our teachers gave,If we worked hard,If we behaved...So the graduations hang on the wall,But they never really helped us at all,No they never taught us what was real,Iron and coke,And chromium steel,And we're waiting here in Allentown...But they've taken all the coal from the ground,And the union people crawled away...

~ Billy Joel

Sanabalis never seemed to eat, and he deflected most of her questions about Dragon cuisine. Then again, he deflected most of her questions about Dragons, period. Which was annoying because he was one, and could in theory be authorative.

~ Michelle Sagara West

GreenHollyWood is a bad character, fat, liking jokes, liking jokes about size, about the large, about the how big are you. Likes to laugh when you make a mistake, ... but but he is a teacher?! With a glasses a fat guy!

~ Deyth Banger

Mother is her son's first god, she must teach him the most important lesson of all - how to love.

~ T.f. Hodge

It is my business as a Sunday school teacher to instill a divine discontent for the ordinary. Only the best possible is good enough for God. Can you say, 'God, I have done all that I can?

~ Henrietta C. Mears

Worst People Are the best TEACHERS.

~ Ujas Soni

Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.

~ Idries Shah

(A point of view of a stupidy of mankind)...Hey... did you check out the book by Stephen King in 7 June published??... (I was talking to one friend if I can put him as a friend...)The teacher says Stop with this books..... pff I said once not twice, why to stop?

~ Deyth Banger

When you feel good you want to go out into the big wide world and make a positive difference. You feel love when you feel good and you want to give that love to everyone you meet. As you go along, you find that most others want what you have and they are usually very willing students, wanting to learn what you already learned so long ago.

~ Kate Mcgahan

Anyone who teaches me deserves my respect, honoring and attention.

~ Sonia Rumzi

We are not perfect. We are here to learn. Earth is one big classroom and God is our heavenly guidance counselor and teacher.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

If you had to spend every second, of every day, of every year of your life with someone, would you do whatever it took to love that person? Would you be a best friend, a teacher, coach and mentor? Would you do whatever it takes to treat that person with respect? Well guess what? That someone is you! Who deserves the best more than you do? Think about it and have an outstanding day…!

~ James A. Murphy

Pride adversely affects all our relationships—our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind. Our degree of pride determines how we treat our God and our brothers and sisters. Christ wants to lift us to where He is. Do we desire to do the same for others?

~ Ezra Taft Benson

Are you sorry? Do you wish you could do it all again and go off and write novels instead of being a teacher?No. You can’t trade what is for what might have been.

~ Lurlene Mcdaniel

One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that mathematical problems have little connection with each other, and no connection at all with anything else. We have a natural opportunity to investigate the connections of a problem when looking back at its solution.

~ George Pólya

The truth is that we are the embodiment of Life, we are born into this world as a result of a miracle, and later we are lost amidst the multitude of teachings and dogmas. After identifying with our beliefs and convinctions we forget who we really are, who the person born in us into the world in order to experience existence and get acquainted with all the teachings.

~ Frank Wanderer

Get Ready, Get Ready!

~ Bishop T.d.jakes

By-passing all scriptures and all that any teacher has to say, we shall, while respecting every finger that points to the moon, be mindful only of the moon. This habit will make it easier to understand the truth that every statement is wrong, whenever made by any man, for it was made in duality and is therefore one-sided, incomplete, and in the final synthesis its opposite is just as true!

~ Christmas Humphreys

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

~ Bill Gates

Remember, you are the true guru of yourself. You are therefore always with Guru - your soul. However, at various stages you meet mentors. Mentors are like lighthouse who supports navigation in a journey called life. But, it is the innocence, vision, and purity of yourself (Guru within) determines the degree of success you can achieve.

~ Vishwas Chavan

It became evident, that in Paris, only one man could fulfil Heloise’s educational needs, Peter (or as the French called him, Pierre) Abelard, a thirty-seven year old philosopher and teacher

~ Emily Williams

A teacher is like a magical mirror that will show you your future. Imagine if you have no teacher, it may mean you have no future.

~ Gracia Hunter

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

~ George Bernard Shaw

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

~ Orson Scott Card

...teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

~ Steve Martin

It's why I went into teaching in the first place. I like the sound of my own voice. Well that, and I am addicted to the smell of chalk and white-board markers.

~ Mercy Celeste

The kind of teacher who never learned anything herself. Or taught anything, except sarcasm or fear.

~ Tanith Lee

As a Jew, I had no desire to challenge my childhood prejudice. But as a teacher, I could not do otherwise.

~ Sondra Perl

You can never stop being a teacher. It is the core responsibility of a leader.

~ Alex Malley

The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.

~ Lev S. Vygotsky

I consider the two years in Beaufort when I taught high school as perhaps the happiest time of my life. My attraction to melodrama and suffering had not yet overwhelmed me, but signs of it were surfacing. No one had warned me that a teacher could fall so completely in love with his students that graduation seemed like the death of a small civilization.

~ Pat Conroy