Famous Quotes

"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself."

Edward Gibbon on Teacher

More quotes about Teacher

• "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 on Teacher

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

  Albert Einstein on Teacher

• "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 on Teacher

• "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 on Teacher

• "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 on Teacher

More quotes by Edward Gibbon

• "I was never less alone than when by myself."

• "Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."

• "Our work is the presentation of our capabilities."

• "The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."

• "Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."