Tea Quotes
There are many fine ideals which are not realisable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them.Peretz Smolenskin
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.Louis - Hector Berlioz
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.James A. Garfield
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty - - Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.Wendell Phillips
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.John Lubbock
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.Aldous Huxley
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.Norman Douglas
Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.Unknown
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.T. S. Eliot
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.Virginia Woolf
Instead of trying to build newer and bigger weapons of destruction, mankind should be thinking about getting more use out of the weapons we already have.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks.Anne Frank, from The Diary of a Young Girl, January 5, 1944
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.Margaret Mead
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.Dag Hammarskjld
We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)
It is noble to teach oneself, it is still nobler to teach others.Mark Twain
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense.E. W. Dijkstra
Instead of pointing a finger, we should hold out our hand.Henry Drummond
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.Robert Louis Stevenson
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.Baltasar Gracian
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.Unknown
High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.Robert Francis Kennedy
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.Robin Williams
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.Edgar Allan Poe
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.Howard Crosby
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.Publilius Syrus
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.Elbert Hubbard
I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.Belle Livingstone
A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.Robert A. Heinlein
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.Natalie Clifford Barney
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.Theodore Roosevelt
Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.W. L. George
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.Napolean Hill
A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.Chinese prove
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.Dorothea Lange
