teach quotes

  I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 32:8^9.

If neither governesses or mothers know, how can they teach? So long as education is not provided for them, how can it be provided by them?

- (Sarah) Emily Davies
  Paper read at the  Annual Meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Sciences, published in Thoughts on Some Questions Relating to Women1860^1908.

O more than moon, Draw not up seas to drown me in thy sphere, Weep me not dead, in thine arms, but forbear To teach the sea what it may do too soon.

-John Donne
c.1595^1605  'A  Valediction: Of  Weeping', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  'Ash Wednesday'.

She whose youth had seemed to teach that happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

-Thomas Hardy
  The Mayor of Casterbridge, ch.45.

Teach me, my God and King, In all thingsThee to see, And what I do in any thing To do it as forThee.

- George Herbert
'The Elixir', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

I can teach it round or flat.

- Lyndon B(aines) also called LBJ Johnson
When asked by a school board about the shape of the earth. Quoted in Tom Wicker One of Us (1991).

In a very real sense, the writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishingof hisideas, though it bringsgratifications, isa curious anti-climax.

- Alfred Kazin
  In Think, Feb.

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.

- Alexander Pope
  Of Addison.'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot', l.201^4.

Teach me to feel another's woe; To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.

- Alexander Pope
  The Universal Prayer.

Teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.

- Beilby Porteus
  'Death'.

Don't wait for schools to be built. Teach the children under the nearest tree.

- Bin Said Qaboos
  Quoted by Rosalind Miles in'An Oxonian in Oman', in OxfordToday, vol.7, no.2, Hilary Issue,1995.

Un fol enseigne bien un sage. A fool has a lot to teach a wise man.

- Fran c° ois Rabelais
  Tiers Livre, pt.37.

Of course I'm drunkyou don't really expect me to teach this stuff when I'm sober.

-Willy (William) Russell
  Educating Rita.

Homines dum docent discunt. Men learn while they teach.

-Seneca full name Lucius AnnaeusSeneca called theYounger
Epistulae 7.8 (translated by R M Gummere).

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  'Julian and Maddalo', l.544^7.

Poetry therefore, is an art of imitation† A speaking picture, with this end: to teach and delight.

- Sir Philip Sidney
  The Defence of Poetry.

To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and aimable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes man.

-Tennyson
  Idylls of the King,'Guinevere', l.472^80.

Iwenttothewoodsbecause Iwishedto live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

- Henry David Thoreau
  Walden, or Life in theWoods,'Where I Lived, andWhat I Lived For'.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilised.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
  Mrs Cheveley speaking. An Ideal Husband, act 3.