Teach Quotes - Page 31

• I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Hate, Book, Philosophical

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.292, eKitap Projesi

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• His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

  J. K. Rowling

  Learning, Priorities, Literature

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• Our lives teach us who we are.

  Salman Rushdie

  Character, Who We Are, Human Nature

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.

  Salman Rushdie

  Divorce, Taught, Married

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• Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hippie, Mean, Mass Destruction

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.87, Psychology Press

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• To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Birthday, Educational, Philosophy

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Children, Thinking, Miracle

  "Teach Your Children Well for a Better Life" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Children, Powerful, Home

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• Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Karma, Crazy, Law

  "Buddhism: Between Desire and Emptiness" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2010.

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• I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Want, I Want A Woman, Paid

  "Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg: 'I want women to be paid more'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2013.

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• The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.

  Rick Santorum

  Girl, People, Choices

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• What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophical, Umpires, Issues

  "The Flies". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Orestes, Act 2, 1943.

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• In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.

  Adam Savage

  Simple, Car, Black

  "Potentially awesome outcomes: Adam Savage on the courage to try". www.wired.com. October 30, 2012.

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• None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  True Love, People, Wicked

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• I pretty much preach, teach and nag.

  Laura Schlessinger

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• The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Education, Teacher, Trying

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• I think that if there's some innovative entrepreneurs out there who can help teach people how they can cost-effectively help themselves and their planet, I think everybody would be for it. That's going to be the challenge - figuring a way to get the marketplace and commerce to teach us consumers another way.

  Ricky Schroder

  Thinking, People, Entrepreneur

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• Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.

  Robert Schumann

  Heart, Names, Joy

  Robert Schumann (1907). “The Letters of Robert Schumann”

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• I believe God created sports for a good reason. It's recreation. It's something that we enjoy. It teaches us a lot as well... I believe God is a sports fan.

  Luke Scott

  Sports, Believe, Fans

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• Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

  Walter Scott

  Wisdom, Children, Grace

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• History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.

  Haile Selassie

  Strength, Differences, Goal

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• There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

  Anna Sewell

  Kindness, Animal, Men

  Anna Sewell (2011). “Black Beauty: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.51, Penguin

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• Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Romantic Love, Best Kiss

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 2, l. 172

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• If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Dance, Witty

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

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• He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Education, Witty, Teacher

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903). A further extension appears in Jacob M. Braude, Speaker's Encyclopedia of Stories, Quotations, and Anecdotes (1955): "Those who can, do; those who can't teach; and those who can't do anything at all, teach the teachers."

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