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  • All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
  • If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
  • Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.
  • There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
  • Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever it has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
  • I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.
  • No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
  • Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
  • We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
  • Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
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  • William Jennings Bryan Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
    William Jennings Bryan
    American orator and politician (1860 - 1925)
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  • Zoltan Kodaly Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.
    Zoltan Kodaly
    Hungarian composer (1882 - 1967)
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  • Carol Burnett Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Umberto Eco I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
    De slinger van Foucault (2007) 60
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Albert Ellis I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Barack Obama I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
    Town Hall Meeting in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 29 March 2008
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Leo Buscaglia If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Confucius If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Hermann Hesse Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • La Harpe To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.
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  • Eldridge Cleaver You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Barbara Cartland A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Horace Mann A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Sir John Lubbock A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Ralph B. Perry Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
    Ralph B. Perry
     
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  • Walter Lippmann Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Susanna Moodie Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
    Susanna Moodie
     
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  • Barbara Walters All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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