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“The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.”

Men Needs Helping Eye Dies Teach Too Much Wise Mines Foolish Strings Strain

Book:The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)

Source: The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)

“No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that nothing is better than anything else, and that all things are in themselves equally meaningless. Except for the fragments of faith (in progress, in compassion, in conscience, in hope) to which it still clings, illegitimately, such a culture teaches every one of its children that life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.”

Children Stills Life Is Culture Compassion Moral Principles Teach Progress Conscience Built All Things Bottom Tales Idiot Meaningless Fragments Relativism Moral Principles Signifying

Author:Michael Novak

“A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.”

Ifs Long Acting Moral Teach Comedy Serious Please Scene

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.”

Art Teach Kings Dancing France Senate Imports Fiddle

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq

“Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.”

Light Rooms Teach Glowing Gloom Counterfeit Embers

Author:John Milton

“One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive, to feel. The stone itself becomes an organic substance, and one can feel it being transformed as one moment in its life succeeds another.”

Feels Looks Art Moments Realizing Teach Growing Succeed Stones Setting Settings Substance Perceive Revelations Transformed Accuracy

Author:Georges Clemenceau

“I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.”

May Teach Teaching Draws Drawing Pupils Nature Love

Book:The Elements of Drawing

Source: The Elements of Drawing

“It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.”

Interest Chance Education Teach Copies

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.”

Moving Teach Aim Delight Oratory Forensics

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.”

Ifs Way Trying Years Ends Courses Teach Practice Study Four Teaching Taught Theory Four Years Engineering Unbroken

Author:Charles Kettering

“To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.”

Mind Children Life Is Purpose Parent Education Teach Accomplish Pleasant Leisure Harvard Liberal Education

Author:Joseph Joubert

“My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.”

People Ifs Belief Pay Attention Teach Dying Forgiving Pay Attention Sweat Small Things

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“I think all of our experience with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein teaches us that diplomacy has very little chance of working unless it is clear to him that if diplomacy does not work, that the threatened reality of force is there.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Doe Reality Force President Chance Teach Clear Threatened Saddam Diplomacy Hussein

Author:Tony Blair

“More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.”

Inspirational Self Sports Teach Pride Skills Wrestling Self Control Inspirational Sports Wrestler Motivational Wrestling

Book:A Wrestling Life 2: More Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable

Source: A Wrestling Life 2: More Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable

“So when the great word "Mother!" rang once more, I saw at last its meaning and its place; Not the blind passion of the brooding past, But Mother -- the World's Mother -- come at last, To love as she had never loved before -- To feed and guard and teach the human race.”

World Inspirational Humans Lasts Past Mother Passion Race Teach Saws Blind Human Race Blindness Brooding

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)

“When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.”

Inspirational Teach Knowing

Author:Peter McWilliams

“The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough.”

Persons Art Enough Purpose Social Teach Painting Philosophical Artistic Formulas Translate

Author:Theophile Gautier

“I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.”

Firsts Art Teach Teaching Taught

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“All religions teach one basic discipline - the removal from the mind of the blemish of egoism, of running after little joys.”

Mind Littles Running Joy Teach Discipline Egoism Removal

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust.”

Teach Teacher Trust Garden Gardening Gardener Thrift Garden Love Gardening And God Inspirational Gardening Watchfulness Jekyll Spring Garden Spring Gardening

Author:Gertrude Jekyll

“You have to realize that your work is done by your body, and if your body is in very bad health, it's not going to work for you no matter how young you are. So, I'm a bit of an athletic coach when it comes to trying to respect my body's needs and tendencies, and when I teach students, I try and persuade them of the same.”

Ifs Needs Trying Matter Done Body Young Bits Realizing Teach Students Your Body Coaches Tendencies Going To Work Athletic Bad Health

Author:Reynolds Price

“I who have set my heart on watching over the soul, in union with Good Thought, and as knowing the rewards of Mazda Ahura for our works, will, while I have power and strength, teach men to seek after Right. I have become an alien in a foreign land.”

Men Heart Soul Teach Knowing Teaching Land My Heart Unions Rewards Aliens Good Thoughts Foreign Lands Power And Strength

Author:Zoroaster

“Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time students of Jesus? Would those who believe it become his apprentices as a natural 'next step'? What can we reasonably expect would result from people actually believing the substance of my message?”

People Believe Doe Next Jesus Causes Natural Results Steps Teach Students Messages Tendencies Substance Next Steps Apprentice

Author:Dallas Willard

“Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.”

Men Mind Faces Acting Teach Mirrors Faithful

Author:Robert Lloyd

“First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitation and then-pfft!-break the limitation.”

Firsts Persons Teach Break Limits Limitation

Author:Viola Spolin

“Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.”

Teach Reader Historical Details Familiar

Author:Carl Clinton Van Doren

“The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach it, and the Spirit to enable us to think and speak rightly of so great a subject.”

Thinking Spirit Father Speak Prayer Christianity Teach Subjects Discussion

Book:Origen

Source: Origen

“If there is anything the artist or a true work of art teaches us, it is that variety and complexity really increase the unity, and that to achieve unity within a great variety of complexity is a greater achievement and more satisfying piece of art than to achieve unity with just a few elements, which is relatively easily achieved.”

Ifs Art Artist Teach Greater Pieces Achieve Elements Achievement Increase Unity Variety Complexity Works Of Art Satisfying

Author:David Steindl-Rast

“The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.”

Knows Want Play Stories Voice Teach Fans Instruments Right Thing

Author:Lady Gaga

“The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.”

Way Children Shows Reading Teach Activity Raises Simplest

Book:The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.”

Believe Seems Culture Teach Frightened Entertaining

Author:Kiki Smith

“New artists will be discovered and trained. Moreover, when the artists who've gone abroad return home, they can share and pass on skills and knowledge to their peers here. I am certain their stints abroad will make them better artists and mentors. It will teach them discipline and independence. It will broaden their horizons.”

Home Artist Certain Teach Gone Share Return Discipline Skills Independence Horizon Mentor Peers Here I Am New Artists Skills And Knowledge

Author:Ryan Cayabyab

“My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.”

Thinking My Own Teach Surprise Take Me

Author:Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“There has to be a consequence to failure. Schools in the inner cities cannot be told, 'Oh, we want you to teach every child to learn how to read and, incidentally, if you fail to do that there's no consequence,' .. There has to be a consequence to failure, and the Title I money needs to follow the child.”

Ifs Want Needs Children School Cities Teach Failing Consequence Titles Inner City

Author:Karl Rove

“Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.”

Art Teach Findings Commitment Commit True Nature

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.”

People Giving Inspiration Teach Teaching Talent Discipline Critical Technique Facility

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the final thing, it's the first thing, which may just be the suggestive, vague identification of something that you have to come back to and rewrite.”

Thinking Firsts May Teach Students Paper Finals Hardest Editing Vague Hardest Thing Identification

Author:M. H. Abrams

“Of course all advance depends upon money, when we depend upon paid workers for any advance. Teach men as one of their first lessons in the gospel that pastoral work and evangelistic work ought to be paid, and will they not believe it? They would all believe it if the Holy Ghost did not dispute our teaching. It is a powerful proof of the presence and grace of the Holy Ghost that they do not all believe it and act accordingly.”

Ifs Men Firsts Believe Courses Powerful Teach Grace Teaching Depends Ought Holy Lessons Paid Workers Proof Ghost Disputes Holy Ghost

Book:The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen

Source: The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen

“The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.”

Persons Three Teach Eternity Unity Doctrine Trinity

Author:Walter Martin

“My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.”

Kids School Teach Missing Fool Dancing Raised Vices Grandmother Ballet My Grandmother

Author:Michelle Shocked

“We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets.”

Teach Teaching Poet Fine

Author:Charles Webster Hawthorne

“Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.”

Should Doe Self Helping Sports Teach Self Esteem Discipline Esteem Winner Self Control Success In Life Self Discipline Trophies Discipline And Self Control

Author:Roy Baumeister

“It is evident that no derivative laws can teach the young student to see and apprehend colour in nature. His perception needs development as urgently as his muscles.”

Needs Law Young Teach Students Development Perception Colour Muscles Evident Derivatives Young Students

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.”

Ifs Teach Students Evolution Harder Core Make Sense Biology

Author:Eugenie Scott

“Keep pace with the times. . . . Find new and surprising ways to teach girls how to develop every gift and grace of true womanhood.”

Way Girl Teach Grace Pace Surprising Womanhood True Womanhood

Author:Elmina Shepard Taylor

“We teach that a person must practice only one cultivation way. No matter how you practice cultivation, you should not mess up your cultivation by adding other things.”

Way Should Persons Matter Teach Practice Teaching Mess Cultivation

Book:Zhuan Falun: The Complete Teachings of Falun Gong

Source: Zhuan Falun: The Complete Teachings of Falun Gong

“We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us as well. We stumble. We stutter. We rise. We are lifted.”

Wells Character Church Prayer Teach Environment Grace Creatures Conscience

Author:Anthony of Padua

“The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else.”

Thinking Way Teach Teaching Best Way

Author:Randy Pausch

“You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.”

Happiness Realizing Answers Teach Inspirational Life Transformation

Author:Galileo Galilei

“Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not to ask for any reward save that of knowing that we do thy will.”

Giving Suffering Fighting Asks Lord Teach Knowing Cost Labor Rewards Wounds Toil Heed Counting The Cost

Author:Ignatius of Loyola