2,279 Quotes About Teaching

Everything and everyone is your teacher unless you are a poor student.

No one can make you feel anything; you are completely responsible for how you feel.

Those who listened to the teachings of Socrates became the best philosophers. But those who studied under Plato, relied more on the rhetorical path and therefore, the greatest opportunists.

When are we going to see the police trainers go to jail for teaching police officers to shoot first and ask questions later?

The purpose of every human life is to teach, through one's own method, the power of love.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. 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. In fact, men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth — often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Stop holding-on to the wrong people. Let them go on their own way; if not for you, then for them.

Be as light as a feather and when they reach for you — you will blow right by their grip; you will effortlessly flow to safety.

Desire for peace, love, and truth is a blessing from the beloved.