Teach Quotes - Page 38

• I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Sassy, Discovery

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.59, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Writing, Wish, Would Be

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, Lasts, Chance

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• Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

  Amy Tan

  Daughter, Laughing, Forever

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.213, Penguin

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• He bequeaths us His manger, from which to learn how God came down to man, and His cross to teach us how man may go up to God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, May, Crosses

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Mornings and Evenings with Spurgeon”, p.344, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Meditation, Sake, Bears

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• Cats are cats . . . the world over! These intelligent, peace-loving, four-footed friends- who are without prejudice, without hate, without greed- may someday teach us something. -James Mackintosh Qwilleran

  Lilian Jackson Braun

  Hate, Cat, Intelligent

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• Teach French and unteach sincerity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Sincerity

  LEO TOLSTOY (1961). “ANNA KARENINA”

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• Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

  Victor Hugo

  Night, Free Education, Soul

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• I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.

  Graham Greene

  School, Two, Differences

  Graham Greene (1970). “The Collected Edition: Brighton rock”

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• Right" he said "Let's get one thing clear. I am not here to teach you law-I am here to teach you loopholes.

  Catherine Jinks

  Law, Said, Clear

  Catherine Jinks (2008). “Evil Genius”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?

  Oswald Chambers

  Want, Connections, Buckets

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.82, Discovery House

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• I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

  Harper Lee

  Father, Reading, Eyebrows

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.

  Harper Lee

  Effort, Groups, Alabama

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill a Mockingbird (Enhanced Edition)”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Boys, Thinking

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• It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels so dirty and pointless and monstrous, as one feels about insanity, because there’s no sense to it, no dignity, nothing but pain--and wasted pain...why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage.

  Ayn Rand

  Courage, Pain, Dirty

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.571, Penguin

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• The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.

  Michael Pollan

  Zero, Garden, Thinking

  "Don't give up". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2008.

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• Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Law, World

  Helen Jerome, Jane Austen (1936). “Pride and prejudice: a sentimental comedy in three acts”

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• We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Respect, Ignorance Of The Law, Order

  Hunter S. Thompson (2002). “Songs of the Doomed”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on I am your teacher.

  Orson Scott Card

  Teacher, Strong, Men

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• Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Beer

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• There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue we happen to have ourselves. It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to our children.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Philosophy, Passing On

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• Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.

  Rene Daumal

  Philosophy, Drinking, Men

  Rene Daumal (2003). “A Night of Serious Drinking”, p.55, The Overlook Press

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• There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Brother, Book, Needs

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