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A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.

– Martin LutherRate it:

As you teach, you learn.

– Jewish ProverbRate it:

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

– Sir John LubbockRate it:

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

– Henry David ThoreauRate it:

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

– E. E. CummingsRate it:

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

– PlatoRate it:

in college they teach you why things can't be done. I never went to college, so I do it.

– Charles Proteus SteinmetzRate it:

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

– Professor Edsger DijkstraRate it:

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

– Elizabeth TaylorRate it:

Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

– Bible, Colossians 3:16Rate it:

Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen-year-old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.

– Jan Ehrenwald.Rate it:

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

– J. Michael StraczynskiRate it:

Only wisdom can teach us when it’s best to say nothing.

– RJ IntindolaRate it:

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards -- the things we live by and teach our children -- are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

– Walt DisneyRate it:

Teach by example and treat yourself the way you would want your children to treat themselves.

– Ingrid WeirRate it:

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

– Andre MalrauxRate it:

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

– Frank A. ClarkRate it:

The only way is to teach with love, which requires looking beyond what seems, and remembering we create with our judgements.

– Bryant McGillRate it:

The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.

– Otto KleppnerRate it:

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.

– Edgar Albert GuestRate it:

To teach is to learn twice.

– Joseph JoubertRate it:

To teach well is to believe in what and whom you teach.

– Donna BulgerRate it:

We may do well to be attentive to the good and the bad vibrations in life. Since elephants use their feet to listen to vibrations and thus capture significant codes of impending peril, they might coach humans and teach them how to become “surefooted” in hazardous times. Keeping feet on the ground, however, should not hinder us from flying high and reaching soaring heights. ("Trompe le pied.")

– Erik PevernagieRate it:

When trying to teach someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary and more from the way the boundary was established.

– Bryant McGillRate it:

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    Who said: "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."?
    • A. Lyndon B. Johnson
    • B. Jimmy Carter
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