Teach Quotes - Page 31

• God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons.

  John Muir

  Lessons, Sometimes

  John Muir (2013). “John Muir's Last Journey: South To The Amazon And East To Africa: Unpublished Journals And Selected Correspondence”, p.29, Island Press

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• The word landed with a stony thud Onto my still-beating breast. Nevermind, I was prepared, I will manage with the rest. I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teach myself to live again. . . But how. The hot summer rustles Like a carnival outside my window; I have long had this premonition Of a bright day and a deserted house.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Summer, Memories, Long

  Anna Akhmatova, “Requiem”

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• Kahlan guide me. Kahlan teach me. Kahlan protect me. In your light I thrive. In your mercy I am sheltered. In your wisdom I am humbled. I live only to love you. My life is yours.

  Terry Goodkind

  Love You, Light, Life Is

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.597, Head of Zeus

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• Do those clowns really believe what they teach?

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Believe, Clown

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pale Fire”, p.249, Vintage

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• I couldn’t miss Percy’s fifteenth birthday,” Poseidon said. “Why, if this were Sparta, Percy would be a man today!” "That’s true,” Paul said. “I used to teach ancient history.” Poseidon’s eyes twinkled. “That’s me. Ancient history.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Men, Missing

  "Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth". Book by Rick Riordan, books.google.ru. March 5, 2009.

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• Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

  Bernard Malamud

  Writing, Uncertainty

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• All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Children, Brainwashing, Educate

  Ellen Gilchrist (2013). “Falling Through Space”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• I haven't fought with anyone else in over two thousand years. (Kyrian) Well, you're never too old to learn. (Amanda) You can't teach an old dog new tricks. (Kyrian) There's no time like the present. (Amanda) Time is of the essence. (Kyrian) God helps those who help themselves. (Amanda) You're not going to let me win this, are you? (Kyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dog, Winning, Years

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• If you had grown up with me, this is one of the things I would have tried to teach you: Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love You, Men, Balance

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

  William Faulkner

  Mistake, Believe, Writing

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Years, Encounters, May

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• Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear, Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand, And, touching hers, make blessèd my rude hand. Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Night, Sight

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [48]

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• School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

  Ambeth R. Ocampo

  Reading, School, Literacy

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• Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.

  Thomas Szasz

  Children, Independent, Self

  "The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary". Book by Thomas Szasz, 1990.

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• Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Death, Loss, Beach House

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.6, Publishdrive

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• Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Faster

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.197, Penguin

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• The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Graduation, Education, Teacher

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2016). “The Souls of Black Folk”, p.71, First Avenue Editions

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• They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Ideas, Stories, Lessons

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• Trust. We stake our lives on it, but it's a subject that not even the Gallagher Academy can teach. When do you let your guard down? Who do you let in? And I knew at that moment, as I sat beside my mother, bathing in the warm spring light, that those were the questions a good spy never stops asking

  Ally Carter

  Mother, Spring, Light

  Ally Carter (2008). “Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (B&N Custom Pub)”, Hyperion

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• O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Forget, Romeo Juliet

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• I have much to teach you. Come and learn the art of war from the one who invented it. (Takeshi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Art, War, Art Of War

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.432, Macmillan

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• If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.

  Umberto Eco

  Use, Television, Want

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• Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Thinking, Errors

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.72, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Children, Results

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• I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Atheist, Believe, Men

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