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I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy

First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

- Chinese proverb

The school teacher is certainly underpaid as a child minder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

- John Osborne

There is no crisis to which academics will not respond with a seminar.

- Old saying

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

- Henry Adams

It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils, and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.

- J. F. Boyse

If the student fails to learn the teacher fails to teach.

- Anonymous

To teach is to learn twice.

- Joseph Joubert

The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.

- Cicero

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

- Jacques Barzun

A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it.

- Entile Capouya

He who can does. He who can't, teaches.

- George Bernard Shaw

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

- Oscar Wilde

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

- Chinese proverb

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.

- Anonymous

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

- Kahlil Gibran

The first duty of a lecturer- to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece for ever.

- Virginia Woolf

We teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

- Gloria Steinem