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My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud. (Quote by - Elie Wiesel)

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)

Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. (Quote by - George Lorimer)

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn. (Quote by - Latin Proverb)

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)

I didn't want them to give their power away to me, either. I don't like to call it teaching. I like to call it sharing what I have learned. (Quote by - Shirley Maclaine)

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. (Quote by - John Burroughs)

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. (Quote by - Abba Eban)

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. (Quote by - Thomas Carruthers)

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality. (Quote by - M. Russell Ballard)

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. (Quote by - Edith Ann)

How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts. (Quote by - Cardinal Newman)

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process. (Quote by - Angelo Bartlett Giamatti)

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. (Quote by - Norman Cousins)

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. (Quote by - Henry Adams)

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be retaught when the students become teachers. (Quote by - G. C. Lichtenberg)

But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. (Quote by - Bible)

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. (Quote by - Lido Anthony Lee Iacocca)

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. (Quote by - Martin Luther)

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values. (Quote by - William Ralph Inge)

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. (Quote by - Aldous Leonard Huxley)

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. (Quote by - Paul Anderson)

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers. (Quote by - Josef Albers)

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. (Quote by - Russell Hoban)

Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth. (Quote by - Leo Tolstoy)

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