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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Teachers and Teaching
Henry Brooks Adams

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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
Learning
Amos Bronson Alcott

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Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
Experience
Minna Antrim

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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Time and Time Management
Hector Louis Berlioz

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Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.
Teachers and Teaching
Edward Blishen

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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.
Mistakes
John Bradshaw

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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
Teachers and Teaching
Bertolt Brecht

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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
Teachers and Teaching
Thomas Carruthers

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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
Teachers and Teaching
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.
Action
Chinese Proverb

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Fear
Marcus T. Cicero

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
Knowledge
Confucius

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Once more I would adopt the graver style -- a teacher should be sparing of his smile.
Teachers and Teaching
William Cowper

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In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Teachers and Teaching
Dalai Lama

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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
Punishment
Diogenes of Sinope

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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Teachers and Teaching
Albert Einstein

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Love is a better teacher than duty.
Love
Albert Einstein

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We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
Teachers and Teaching
George Farquhar

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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
Teachers and Teaching
Robert Frost

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Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Teachers and Teaching
Mahatma Gandhi

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He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.
Teachers and Teaching
German Proverb

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The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
Teachers and Teaching
Kahlil Gibran

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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
Teachers and Teaching
Elbert Hubbard

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What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Blindness
Helen Keller

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
Learning
Ken Keyes Jr.

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun