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I don't teach kids to be number 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be number 1; that's not it. You don't have to be number 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.
Jim BrownRead
Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee
George HerbertRead
As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change our minds, and not to want to know exciting things that are available to be known. It subverts science and saps the intellect.
Richard DawkinsRead
Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
Michel De MontaigneRead
Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.
Michel De MontaigneRead
Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.
Michel De MontaigneRead
I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.
William HarveyRead
There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.
Malcolm XRead
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry AdamsRead
You have to teach now - tell a kid how to box out, tell him how to pass, teach him footwork. Players don't understand that anymore.
Oscar RobertsonRead
I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain to a singing-silence - they look paradoxical - unless you attain to an unmoving dance, you have not attained.
RajneeshRead
It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.
Dalai LamaRead
Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations and blinds them to the wonderful real explanations that we have within our grasp.
Richard DawkinsRead
There is no better way to learn than to teach.
Benjamin WhichcoteRead
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
John Henrik ClarkeRead
You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.
Haile GebrselassieRead
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Niccolo MachiavelliRead
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry AdamsRead
If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.
Shirley MaclaineRead
Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.
Henri PoincareRead
Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.
Thomas CarlyleRead

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