1.
You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
Barack Obama
Do not allow your missteps to determine your identity; rather, learn from them.
2.
We must teach more by example than by word.
Mary MacKillop
We must demonstrate more than we preach.
3.
Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.
Anthony of Padua
'Demonstrate rather than profess; let your teachings be seen and your words heard.'
4.
A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning
Carl Rogers
A person cannot impart knowledge to another; they can only foster the other's education.
5.
I know my limitations. I know I'm not perfect. I know what I know, but more importantly, I know what I don't know. When I don't know something, I surround myself with people I can trust to teach me.
Brock Lesnar
6.
Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.
Jean Piaget
Every time a child is supplied with knowledge they could have deduced themselves, that youngster is prevented from devising it and thus from grasping it utterly.
7.
Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them
Lev S. Vygotsky
Realization conveys itself through language.
8.
You teach people how to treat you by what you allow, what you stop, and what you reinforce.
Tony Gaskins
Educate others on how to interact with you by what you accept, reject, and encourage.
9.
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Schooling should not simply instruct labour-it must teach lifestyle.
10.
Everytime we teach a child something, we prevent him from inventing it
himself.
Jean Piaget
Everytime we impart knowledge to a child, we obstruct them from discovering it independently.
11.
Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.
Paulo Freire
Whoever imparts instruction acquires knowledge in the process of teaching, and whoever acquires knowledge imparts instruction in the process of learning.
12.
Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Every individual that crosses our paths arrives for a purpose; some come to gain knowledge and others come to impart wisdom.
13.
When I don't know something, I surround myself with people I can trust to teach me.
Brock Lesnar
When I lack knowledge, I seek out wise advisors to inform me.
14.
Teach what is inside you.
Not as it applies to you, to yourself,
but as it applies to the other.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
Impart what is within you. Not from your perspective, but from that of others.
15.
Teach by teaching, not by correcting
Maria Montessori
Educate through instruction, not admonition.
16.
To disarm a zealot, teach him truth by precept, and mildness by example.
Al-Kindi
Educate a fanatic through both instruction and gentle behavior.
17.
I will only debate with my equals. All others I teach.
John Henrik Clarke
'I will only engage in discourse with my peers. All others I instruct.'
18.
Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
Michael Faraday
'Instructive lessons that are truly educational will never be widely accepted; talks that have mass appeal will never impart real knowledge.'
19.
What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
What history imparts to us is that neither countries nor regimes ever acquire anything from it.
20.
If a future Pope teaches anything contrary to the Catholic Faith, do not follow him.
Pope Pius IX
If a future Pontiff espouses ideas that do not conform to Catholic doctrine, do not obey him.
21.
Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.
Charles Dickens
22.
People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.
N. T. Wright
23.
Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
Thomas Carlyle
24.
The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it
Aristotle
25.
This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.
Rainer Maria Rilke
26.
There's only so much you can teach a person until you reach the limits of his capabilities.
Arnold Rothstein
27.
A true teacher doesn't teach you to think like him, but to think without him.
Tariq Ramadan
28.
You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
Jack Kerouac
29.
To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.
Maria Montessori
30.
Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.
D.T. Suzuki
31.
All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.
Pema Chodron
33.
If you do not know the blessings you have when you have them, then Allah will teach you about them by taking them away from you
Ibn Ata Allah
34.
I cannot teach anybody how to cook. All I can do is show them, share methods with them.
Marco Pierre White
35.
Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.
John Milton
36.
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
Walter Mosley
37.
You can teach what you know, but you can only reproduce what you are.
T. D. Jakes
38.
Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
Mao Zedong
39.
School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for.
Vince Staples
40.
He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.
Philip Roth
41.
The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.
Byron Katie
42.
Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
Zelda Fitzgerald
43.
We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything.
Viola Spolin
44.
Lord, teach us to step outside ourselves. Teach us to go out into the streets and manifest your love.
Pope Francis
45.
Learning many things does not teach understanding
Heraclitus
46.
Once you learn to hit, teach yourself to never miss again.
The Weeknd
47.
Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
Mason Cooley
50.
Economics teaches humility because it teaches us more about what we can't do than what we can do
Peter Boettke