Teacher quotes

Teacher

5.3K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

5.3K quotes

Explore further

Browse quotes that often appear alongside teacher — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.

School 11.5K quotes Teaching 3.8K quotes Children 25.4K quotes Education 3.2K quotes Thinking 95.1K quotes People 100.4K quotes

Quote collection

Teacher quotes (page 6 of 265)

Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.

Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
Teacher

"If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you."

Reality Teacher Journey
Read quote 67 likes
Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
Teacher

"Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head virtues to promote it! To all those be-lauded sages of the academic chairs, wisdom was sleep Without dreams: they knew no higher significance of life. Even at present, to be sure, there are some like this preacher of virtue, and not always so honorable: but their time is past. And not much longer do they stand: there they already lie. Blessed are those drowsy ones: for they shall soon nod to sleep.-Thus spoke Zarathustra."

Dream Lying Teacher
Read quote 66 likes
Barack Obama Politician
Teacher

"And when it comes to developing the high standards we need, it's time to stop working against our teachers and start working with them. Teachers don't go in to education to get rich. They don't go in to education because they don't believe in their children. They want their children to succeed, but we've got to give them the tools. Invest in early childhood education. Invest in our teachers and our children will succeed."

Children Teacher Education
Read quote 65 likes
Natalie Portman Actress, Director, Producer
Teacher

"When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'"

Teacher Mom Husband
Read quote 65 likes
Cary Grant Actor
Teacher

"One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style"

Done Teacher Style
Read quote 63 likes
Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
Teacher

"Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way."

School Opportunity Teacher
Read quote 63 likes
H. G. Wells Writer
Teacher

"Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth."

Writing Teacher Unique
Read quote 62 likes
Luci Shaw Poet, Author
Teacher

"Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we have. In the process of creation and relationship, what seems mundane and trivial may show itself to be a holy, precious part of a pattern."

Artist Teacher Healing
Read quote 61 likes
Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Teacher

"There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real."

Pain Teacher Letting Go
Read quote 60 likes
Epictetus Philosopher
Teacher

"Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant."

Teacher Teaching Fathers Day
Read quote 60 likes