teach quotes

• Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. (Benjamin Franklin) [forget/teach/remember]
• Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all. (Henry Ward Beecher) [knowledge/knowledge/teach/teach]
• There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. (Henry Fielding) [teach/virtue/happiness]
• For so work the honey-bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom. (William Shakespeare) [nature/teach/order]
• Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity. (William Shakespeare) [teach/virtue]
• It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. (Elizabeth Taylor) [strange/teach/patience/time]
• I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. ( Socrates) [teach/think]
• There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. (John Adams) [teach]
• You teach best what you most need to learn. (Richard Bach) [teach]
• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war. ( Napoleon I) [fight/willpower/teach/war]
• The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. ( Confucius) [teach/duties]
• It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family. ( Confucius) [teach/teach/family]
• If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. ( Confucius) [think/teach/people]
• The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. (John Dewey) [education/teach/think/think]
• Now, what I want is, facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir! (Charles Dickens) [facts/teach/girls/facts]
• Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. (Benjamin Disraeli) [teach/wealth/beauty]
• The course of everything goes to teach us faith. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [teach/faith]
• The years teach us much the days never knew. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [teach]
• There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. (Henry Fielding) [teach/virtue/happiness]
• If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers, and of their sometimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths, and dull razors. (Benjamin Franklin) [teach/order/more/happiness]
• You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. (Galileo Galilei) [teach/find]
• I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could. (Mahatma Gandhi) [teach/truth]
• Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [teach/rest]
• They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [teach]
• I teach that all men are mad. ( Horace) [teach/men]
• You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company. (Samuel Johnson) [teach/wonder/delight/company]
• No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true. (Samuel Johnson) [society/right/teach/society]
• They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master. (Samuel Johnson) [teach/morals/etiquette/dancing]
• My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it. (Abraham Lincoln) [teach/love]
• It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach. (John Locke) [teach]
• I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [teach]

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