I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. – Khalil Gibran
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. – Swami Vivekananda
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. – Helen Keller
Those who know how to think need no teachers. – Mahatma Gandhi
Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives. – Andy Rooney
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner. – Elbert Hubbard
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount. – Harry S. Truman
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. – Thomas Carlyle
A teacher is a person who never says anything once. – Howard Nemerov
Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything – even mountains, rivers, plants and trees – should be your teacher. – Morihei Ueshiba
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. – Soren Kierkegaard
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. – Warren G. Bennis
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher. – Temple Grandin
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought. – H. G. Wells
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater. – William Hazlitt
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. – Amos Bronson Alcott
Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy. – Glenn Beck
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. – Baltasar Gracian
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. – Simone Weil
