Teach Quotes - Page 22

• Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

  Abdallah II

  Justice, Intellectual, Target

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• Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.

  George Matthew Adams

  Sports, Heart, Wind

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  America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

  Jane Addams

  Education, Children, Future

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• Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

  Aeschylus

  Time, Hunting, Growing

  "Eumenides". Play by Aeschylus,

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• I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

  Alan Alda

  Catholic, Doe, Shapes

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

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• Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Objectivity, Chess, Firsts

  "The Soviet School of Chess". Book by Alexander Kotov, p. 42, 2001.

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• My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

  Sherman Alexie

  Children, Rebel, Purpose

  Interview with Rob Capriccioso, www.identitytheory.com. March 23, 2003.

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• I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Equality, Liberty, Fraternity

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• Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.

  Pamela Anderson

  Marine, Animal, Circles

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• One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

  Maya Angelou

  Wonderful, Wonderful Things

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• Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Believe, Scary

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.

  Karen Armstrong

  Suffering, Midst

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• If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

  Saint Augustine

  Math, Ignorant, Doe

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• I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

  Bill Ayers

  Writing, Lectures, Silent

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• The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Boys, Games

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• I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.

  David Bailey

  Children, Father, Chess

  "David Bailey: What I've Learned" by Johnny Davis, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2014.

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• The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

  David Bailey

  Art, School, Art School

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• There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

  Antonio Banderas

  Forget

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• If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

  Bernard Baruch

  Peace, Past, Years

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• Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Father, Military, Agreement

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• Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.

  Saint Basil

  Evil, Doctrine, Taught

  Saint Basil (2010). “Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)”, p.19, CUA Press

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• You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

  Martha Beck

  School, Parent, Social Pressure

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• A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

  Robert Benchley

  Dog, Perseverance, Lying

  Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

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• Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Respect, Self, Order

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• My view is quite simple. When your dog pees on the carpet, you do not give away your dog. You say, This dog is special. I have to teach him not to pee on the carpet. I feel exactly the same way about men. They need to be taught things.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Dog, Simple, Men

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

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