Teacher Quotes

India is simply dotted with pilgrimage places, and with teachers and very powerful spiritual guides.

Teachers are no longer the fountain of knowledge; the internet is.

Most of my school friends and even a few of my teachers called me Duck.

If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.

The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers!

No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book.

One thing my teacher taught me about getting psychic information with my intuition was to say, "Just show me the truth of this situation, God." That helps us to be able to read it more clearly.

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.

One could say that everybody in this world has a spiritual teacher. For most people, their losses and disasters represent the teacher; their suffering is the teacher.

"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left.

Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.

In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go, "That's so strange. This poem looks so much like my grandfather's poem."

Give us more and more of real Christianity, and we shall need less of its evidences. Act upon the supposition that Christ is a Divine Teacher, and you will soon have a demonstration of its truth.

A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.

You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.

In high school, I would drive my teachers batty. They would make a statement, and I would say, 'Why is that?' They didn't want to be questioned.

I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.

My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.

The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.

My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.

We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.

Oh teacher, I need you like a little child, you got something in you to drive a school boy wild.

The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.

I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

Like the truth, retirement can set you free. Or, like work, retirement can imprison you.

A teacher's hardest lesson is to limit his explanation to the minimum.

Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year.

Oh, it's the first big thing I've really done. My first job out of college was working with Steven Soderbergh. I was telling my acting teachers, "I did it, you guys!"

Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.

Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him.

adversity is so rough a teacher!

... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.

Roger Collins wasn't the most popular teacher at school only because he was interesting in class. In fact, most of the girls would have loved a little after-class attention from this teacher.

Teacher? I never dreamed I could rise so high in the world

True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.

In enlightenment you have to convince a teacher not only that you are worthy of teaching, but then that they should show you some of the secrets.

I think only a person who's studied WITH someone for many years is in a position to voice a true opinion about a particular teacher.

Love is a modest and immodest teacher who will bring you through the school of existence, which is the heart.

The true teacher of love is the heart. The heart is very, very wise. It makes mistakes from time to time, but it has a wisdom all of its own.

We see that love manifested normally in the soldier, in the parent, in the lover, and in the spiritual teacher.

You never devote yourself to a teacher. You devote yourself to the practice.

Enlightenment is a journey. It is a journey that is made alone. It is a journey that is made with a teacher.

Meditate on enlightenment. Read the exploits of the great teachers, the great saints. They'll inspire you. Their power is there.

In order not to lose your resolve and purpose, you need to unite with others of like mind and work with an advanced Teacher who is in touch with, and can transfer, knowledge and power.

If you're very liberal, then you should go and find a very liberal Zen teacher, a liberal interpretation of the doctrines of the Soto or Rinzai schools.

The advanced student of meditation takes an active part in supporting the work of their teacher. They happily work more hours or do whatever is necessary to help out more.

I've been very fortunate because many of the teachers I had were exceptional. But I didn't realize that at the time that all teachers were not alike.