Teach Quotes - Page 27

• You reflect on the people who used to be in your life, and it's like, 'Wow, I can't believe that person was ever really in my life.' But people are put into your life for seasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons.

  Selena Gomez

  Believe, People, Different

  "Exclusive Interview: Selena Gomez". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. May 3, 2011.

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• We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

  Jane Goodall

  Sound, Language, Communicate

  "Chimps with everything: Jane Goodall's 50 years in the jungle". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2010.

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• It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

  Jane Goodall

  Eye, Catching, Eye Catching

  "New mission for chimps' champion". Interview with Ros Coward, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2004.

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• I think hype is a good thing. You need it and it'll teach you valuable things and you'll grow stronger, which is what I've done.

  Ellie Goulding

  Thinking, Hype, Stronger

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

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• There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Excellence, Excellent

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• I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

  Billy Graham

  Men, Fellow Man, Psalms

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• No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.

  Brian Greene

  Cat, Trying, Matter

  NOVA interview, www.pbs.org. October 28, 2003.

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• It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for.

  Brian Greene

  Passion, Hard

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• When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high school students.

  Brian Greene

  School, Math, Firsts

  "Sunday Q&A: Physicist seeks truth about cosmos". Interview With Eric Berger, www.chron.com. September 27, 2009.

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• If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  New Orleans, Cities, Want

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• Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

  Nhat Hanh

  Running, Buddhism, Order

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2003.

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• Nothing teaches you like getting leveled. And I got leveled in my early 30s. Nothing went exactly the way I thought it would.

  Ethan Hawke

  Way

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• People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Dog, People

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• Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.106, Om Books International

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• I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!'

  Christopher Hitchens

  Class, People, Missing

  "Look who's talking". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2002.

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• Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

  David Hockney

  Crafts, Wells

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. 2004.

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• I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

  Ernest Holmes

  Believe, Teaching, Suffering

  Ernest Holmes (2009). “What We Believe: The Essence of Science of Mind”, p.20, The Floating Press

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• Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Liars, Lying, Keys

  "What I Would Tell a Son," Family Weekly, July 14, 1963.

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• Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. There is light, and there is shadow. Everything is in half tint.

  William Morris Hunt

  Art, Philosophy, Light

  William Morris Hunt (1878). “W.M. Hunt's Talks about Art: With a Letter from J.E. Millais”

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• Experience teaches only the teachable.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Teaching, Experience

  Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

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• Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

  Thomas Huxley

  Beautiful, Wise, Children

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.32, Cambridge University Press

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• My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

  Thomas Huxley

  Integrity, Trying, Facts

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”

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• The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

  Thomas Huxley

  Writing, Men, Hands

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.85, Cambridge University Press

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• 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.

  Hypatia

  Children, Pain, Believe

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• Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use these skills for the rest of their lives working productively in an industry.

  Naveen Jain

  Children, Skills, Use

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