Quotes on teaching

Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.

--Bob Talbert


The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

--William Arthur Ward


A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.

--Anonymous


What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

--Karl Menninger


A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

--Anonymous

Politics Quotes

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. -H. L. Mencken


Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living. -P. J. ORourke


Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. -Robert Louis Stevenson


Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace

Quotes

We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do.
Martha Grimes

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire

Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.
Ed Norton

We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
Claude Bernard

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
Whitney Young

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Time is like a river.
You cannot touch the same water twice,
because the flow that has passed will never pass again.
Enjoy every moment of life.

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.