Teacher Quotes

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Khalil Gibran

Kindness, Silence, Ungrateful

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Art, Knowledge, Joy

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Confucius

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual, Soul, Grow

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck

Great, Mind, Greatest

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.
Joe Manchin

Family, Friend, May

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Helen Keller

Self, Person, Another

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar Wilde

Learning, Everybody, Taken

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung

Gratitude, Human, Feelings

Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Mahatma Gandhi

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Bill Gates

Tough, Wait, Until

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Dr. Seuss

Alone, Yourself, Help

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Aristotle

Power, Knowledge, Sign

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
Andy Rooney

End, Remember, Lives

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
Robert Frost

Two, Move, Behind

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Albert Camus

Best, Knowledge, True

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
Elbert Hubbard

True, Lessons, Learner

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
Woody Allen

Education, School, Terrible

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
Brad Henry

Love, Good, Hope

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.
Dan Rather

Truth, Sometimes, Dream

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
Warren Buffett

Society, Off, Themselves

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Horace Mann

Learn, Desire, Cold

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Lee Iacocca

Best, Society, Else

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
Phyllis Diller

Children, Down, Talk

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
Harry S. Truman

Today, Through, Country

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