Best Teaching Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Evaluate the people around you. Are they helping you? Are they inspiring you? Are they teaching you? Are they challenging you, or are they distracting you? When you reflect on how you relate with people, be completely truthful, because you should only surround yourself with those who uplift you.”

“Maybe I can’t change your future, but I can help you shine in your present.”

“The years teach us much, which the days never knew.”

“Now and then, teaching may approach poetry, and now and then it may approach profanity. May I tell you a little story about the great Einstein? I listened once to Einstein as he talked to a group of physicists in a party. "Why have all the electrons the same charge?" said he. "Well, why are all the little balls in the goat dung of the same size?" Why did Einstein say such things? Just to make some snobs to raise their eyebrows? He was not disinclined to do so, I think. Yet, probably, it went deeper. I do not think that the overheard remark of Einstein was quite casual. At any rate, I learnt something from it: Abstractions are important; use all means to make them more tangible. Nothing is too good or too bad, too poetical or too trivial to clarify your abstractions. As Montaigne put it: The truth is such a great thing that we should not disdain any means that could lead to it. Therefore, if the spirit moves you to be a little poetical, or a little profane, in your class, do not have the wrong kind of inhibition." - George Polya's Mathematical Discovery, Volume 11, pp 102, 1962.”

“There is truth and knowledge beyond present understanding.”

“Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of enlightenment.”

“People don’t remember data — they remember stories. And the right story can change someone’s financial life.”

“It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.”

“Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot...”

“Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects.”

“The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.”

“People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.”

“The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about.”

“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.”

“The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.”

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”

“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”

“The end … of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him.”

“In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.”

“The parent is protector and trainer, but never the ultimate teacher. Every parent is responsible for teaching their kid basic moral conduct, manners, the difference between love and hate, and right from wrong. However, after maturity, the child must set off to seek knowledge on their own. Religion is never to be forced. And you cannot threaten your child with hell and tell them your religion is the only right way. There is no one right way. The many ways to the Creator are as varied as the colors of a rainbow.”

“The Anatomy of Conflict:”

“I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I studied languages and literature for two years. After two years I passed an examination with the result I have a teaching certificate for Latin and Hungarian for the lower classes of the gymnasium, for kids from 10 to 14. I never made use of this teaching certificate. And then I came to philosophy, physics, and mathematics. In fact, I came to mathematics indirectly. I was really more interested in physics and philosophy and thought about those. It is a little shortened but not quite wrong to say: I thought I am not good enough for physics and I am too good for philosophy. Mathematics is in between.”

“To lovers there.”

“Teaching others, he corrected himself.”

“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”

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

“It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?”