teaching Quotes

“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice. Yet your intellect will never grasp them, and if you try to practice them, you'll fail. My teachings are older than the world. How can you grasp their meaning? If you want to know...”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

topic:heart understanding teaching

“the tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.”

― Plato, The Republic

“This is why I am continuing my travels—not to seek other, better teachings, for I know there are none, but to depart from all teachings and all teachers and to reach my goal by myself or to die.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

topic:self teaching

“If philosophy among other vagaries were also to have the notion that it could occur to a man to act in accordance with its teaching, one might make out of that a queer comedy.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:philosophy teaching

“Religion and spirituality are very different, but people often confuse the two. Some things cannot be taught, but they can be awakened in the heart.”

― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly

topic:religion teaching

“But there is one thing which these so clear, these so venerable teachings do not contain: they do not contain the mystery of what the exalted one has experienced for himself, he alone among hundreds of thousands.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

topic:self experience teaching

“Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need some one to teach us the art of learning with difficulty.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:learning teaching difficulty

“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:knowledge education learning mind teaching body

“Those honour Nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything, even on theology.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:nature teaching

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