Teacher Quotes

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

Albert Einstein


I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Khalil Gibran


You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Swami Vivekananda


If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Confucius


One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung


The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. Lewis


I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck



Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar Wilde


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


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


Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
Andy Rooney


Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.
Joe Manchin


If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Bill Gates


The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Aristotle


A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
Brad Henry


You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Dr. Seuss


The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
Elbert Hubbard