Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Warren

When you feel nothing, God is teaching you to live by faith.

Tracey Gold

Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.

Madame de Stael

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

Joyce Cary

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

Joycelyn Elders

We can begin to address the issue of guns by teaching our young people how to deal with situations in nonviolent ways. Someone said to me the other day, "What our adolescents need is not so much health care, but healthy caring," and I agree. Parents and churches need to provide that. Curricula in our schools [need to] provide that.

Joycelyn Elders

Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I answered, "Doctor, I have more education than most white people."

Kami Garcia

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.

William Faulkner

He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and compassion and sacrifice. See Poets & Writers

William Faulkner

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Warren Farrell

With men, we blame the victim. We blame men because we have camouflaged men's victimization by teaching men to also be the victimizer. Men's victimizer status camouflages men's victim status.

W. E. B. Du Bois

We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves.

Zaha Hadid

No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.

Ziggy Marley

The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.

Zach Braff

I think we have to acknowledge that people are different and succeed at different things, first of all. Men are better than women at some professions like firefighting, construction work, and physics. But women are better than men at some professions, too, like elementary teaching, prostitution, and giving birth. Who's to say which is more important?

William Hung

I enjoy tutoring. I just really enjoy the experience of teaching.

Warren E. Burger

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

William Bennett

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

Wendy Whelan

We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.

Werner Erhard

What gives people superiority at a task is true intention. That makes you attuned to everything.

Wallace Stegner

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

Samuel Smiles

Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,--teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world's good.

Vladimir Putin

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.

William Glasser

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

William Godwin

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

William Godwin

The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.

William Ames

Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.

Wassily Kandinsky

The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age.

Walter Lippmann

The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no limitations ought to be imposed upon government. The older faith, born of long ages of suffering under man's dominion over man, was that the exercise of unlimited power by men with limited minds and self-regarding prejudices is soon oppressive, reactionary, and corrupt. The older faith taught that the very condition of progress was the limitation of power to the capacity and the virtue of rulers.

William Butler Yeats

Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.

Winona LaDuke

One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they are oppressed but don’t feel powerless. White people don’t feel oppressed, but feel powerless. Deconstruct that disempowerment. Part of the mythology that they’ve been teaching you is that you have no power. Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.

Winston Churchill

Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.

William Zinsser

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.