Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wooden

Winning and losing aren't all they're cracked up to be, but the trip to the destination is.

John Wooden

There are little details in everything you do, and if you get away from any one of the little details, you're not teaching the thing as a whole. For it is little things which, together, make the whole. This, I think, is extremely important.

John Wooden

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

John Wooden

Profound responsibilities come with teaching and coaching. You can do so much good–or harm. It’s why I believe that next to parenting, teaching and coaching are the two most important professions in the world.

John Ruskin

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

John Ruskin

I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.

John Ruskin

Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.

John Milton

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

Norman Douglas

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.

Norman Douglas

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong. How easy that seems! Has any one ever done so? Never. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through the fire.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus the other.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't have an issue with what you do in the church, but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me they've got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. Because that's when we're going to fight.

Theophile Gautier

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.

Theodore Roethke

A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.

Theodore Roethke

The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped.

Theodore Roethke

Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner.

Theodore Roosevelt

I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.

Theodore Roosevelt

Almost every man who has by his life-work added to the sum of human achievement of which the race is proud, of which our people are proud, almost every such man has based his life-work largely upon the teachings of the Bible

Theodore Roosevelt

The teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us to figure to ourselves what that life would be if these teachings were removed.

Theodore Roosevelt

Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and intertwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally, I do not mean figuratively, but literally impossible for us to figure what the loss would be if these teachings were removed. We would lose all the standards by which we now judge both public and private morals; all the standards toward which we, with more or less resolution, strive to raise ourselves.

Margaret Mead

The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.

Margaret Drabble

I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.

Margaret Halsey

Example is better than precept.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that squeeze the life out of us.

Michael Faraday

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

Michael Parenti

In the end I created a career of my own, concentrating on my writing and lecturing, reaching larger audiences than I would had I ended up with tenure and a full teaching load. It was Virginia Woolf who said that it is terrible to be frozen out of a sacred tradition-but even more terrible to be frozen into it.

Michael Parenti

Union busting has become a major industry with more than a thousand consulting firms teaching companies how to prevent workers from organizing and how to get rid of existing unions.

Paul R. Ehrlich

Stanford may be the best university in the world, but you can get all the way through here without knowing where your food came from, without being able to say where we came from, without being able to give a coherent description of why the climate is changing and why we should be concerned about it. So I started teaching a course in human evolution and the environment that's open to all Stanford students, no prerequisites.

Paul Gascoigne

A boy is better unborn than untaught.

Paul Gauguin

Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!

Patrick Rothfuss

I loved college. I wish I was still taking classes instead of teaching them.

Patrick Rothfuss

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.