Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

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.

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Diligence is a great teacher.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.