Great Teacher Quotes - Page 11

• I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home for Christmas.'

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Spiritual, Teacher, Home

  "Remember This Advice From Elizabeth Gilbert When Your Family Pushes Your Buttons", www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2014.

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• Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Teacher, Good Teacher, Teach

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• Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.

  Taylor Mali

  Teacher, Parent, Able

  Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.17, Penguin

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• To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

  James Joyce

  Teacher, Humble, Life Is

  James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.403, Simon and Schuster

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• A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.

  Herbie Hancock

  Teacher, Creativity, Goal

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• I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.

  Julia Roberts

  Teacher, Being Ignored, Shapes

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• When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Education, Teacher, Art

  "The Real Problem With Waiting for 'Superman'" by Aaron Swartz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.

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• All of the Great Teachers throughout the history of our species have merely taught one thing, over & over, in whatever language, at whatever time. All have said, simply: Give up weak attractors for strong attractors.

  David Hawkins

  Teacher, Strong, Giving Up

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• The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning. Find your heart, and you will find your way.

  Carlos Barrios

  Teacher, Gratitude, Real

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• In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Spiritual, Teacher, Lying

  Peter Matthiessen (1998). “Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982”, p.88, Shambhala Publications

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• We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Humble, Humility, Be Humble

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.11, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every great leader is a great teacher, and the greatest leaders seize every opportunity to teach well.

  Albert Mohler

  Teacher, Opportunity, Leader

  Albert Mohler (2012). “The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters”, p.49, Baker Books

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• Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.

  Deepak Chopra

  Teacher, Inspiration, Knowing

  Deepak Chopra (1993). “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, Harmony

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