c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more police and procedural shows than I've ever done science fiction shows. I was on 'Murder She Wrote,' I was on 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' I was on 'Jake and the Fat Man.'
— J. Michael Straczynski
I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.
— Jack Nicholson
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
— J. G. Ballard
Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.
— Jill Lepore
I don't know if science and reason will ultimately help guide humanity to a better and more peaceful future, but I am certain that this belief is part of what keeps the 'Star Trek' fandom going.
— Lawrence M. Krauss
When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate?
— Lawrence M. Krauss
In adapting to life in the melting pot of America, I discovered that the same soft power of science has a huge influence in building bridges between cultures and religions - and has the potential to do so with the Muslim world.
— Ahmed Zewail
We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.
— Annalee Newitz
Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.
— Annalee Newitz
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
— Thomas Huxley
Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
— Thomas Huxley
Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.'
— Tony Blair
We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.
— Bill Nye
I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.
— Sally Ride
Fashion is more about feel than science.
— Pharrell Williams
There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they love Big Placebo.
— Michael Specter
Science is the first expression of punk, because it doesn't advance without challenging authority. It doesn't make progress without tearing down what was there before and building upon the structure.
— Greg Graffin
I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism.
— Greg Graffin
I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature than most of us. These were great naturalists people I would admire for their knowledge of natural science given the time. 
— Greg Graffin
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
— Erich Fromm
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
— Russell Baker
I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.
— Mae Jemison
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
— John Carmack
There is no complete theory of anything.
— Robert Anton Wilson
Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it.
— Francis Collins
When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.
— Francis Collins
Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
As a child, I was fascinated by any branch of physical or biological science. Even today, I find great excitement in discovering the complexity and variability of the world we live in, getting a glimpse into the deeper reality that we mostly ignore in our everyday human activities.
— Robert J. Shiller
I like to think of it as this new field. Instead of computer science, it's going to be virtual science.
— Brendan Iribe
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
— Alfred Hitchcock
All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact, I was insufficiently prepared to follow the physical science course at the Sorbonne, for, despite all my efforts, I had not succeeded in acquiring in Poland a preparation as complete as that of the French students following the same course.
— Marie Curie
Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.
— Donella Meadows
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
— Karl Kraus
Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.
— Ray Comfort
Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.
— James Lovelock
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
— Stendhal
Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of the human mind than had ever existed before.
— Eric Kandel
Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating - or if it is floating at all.
— Huston Smith
Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of time.
— Elizabeth Blackburn
Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.
— Daniel H. Wilson
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
— Walter Lippmann
In history class, I wrote a poem, 'The Royalists and the Roundheads.' I would write poems about driftwood in art class and little stories about the sun, moon, and stars in science class. Since not many kids were writing in class, I got away with it.
— Judith Viorst
I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go. I always say it's gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
— Afrika Bambaataa
Grades can matter, especially for those students and parents who live for the next round of applications to graduate or professional schools. But there's a problem with the grade emphasis. Math or science graduates earn more than students majoring in the humanities.
— Amity Shlaes
Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.
— Zac Goldsmith
People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
— Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Governments and scientists in India need to ensure that politics and religious ideology do not intrude into science. They belong to separate spheres, and if they are not kept separate, it is science in India and the country as a whole that will suffer.
— Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?
— Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
— Charles Kettering
Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.
— Lucy Larcom
It's man's nature to abuse knowledge and power, be it in the realm of science, government, or Wall Street. Take God out of the picture, and you have real trouble.
— Frank Peretti
HGH testing is happening in Olympics. The science is there. It is a valid test.
— Roger Goodell
Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science.
— Paul Davies
Beauty is the lowest common denominator: I don't care what they say - every girl, every woman, wants to feel pretty and empowered and beautiful, within their own definition of beautiful. I love fashion, I love shopping, but I love beauty more because I love the science of it.
— Eva Chen
I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things.
— Danny DeVito
Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.
— Tom DeLonge
Sometime in the future, science will be able to create realities that we can't even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll be able to construct other information systems that correspond to other realities, universes based on logic completely different from ours and not based on space and time.
— Robert Lanza
Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.
— Robert Lanza
My model for Kirk was Horatio Hornblower from the C.S. Forester sea stories. Shatner was open-minded about science fiction and a marvelous choice.
— Gene Roddenberry
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
— Howard Nemerov
I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.
— Aaron Patzer
Let us advance science to create a better world for all.
— Dan Shechtman
Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.
— Bernard Williams
The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.
— Bernard Williams
It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.
— Mary Douglas
The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.
— Charles Babbage
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
— Iain Banks
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
— John Charles Polanyi
For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.
— John Charles Polanyi
When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.
— John Carpenter
Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.
— Ada Lovelace
I have had a small handful of truly blatantly discriminatory experiences for being transgender, but the vast majority are simply the differences between being a man versus being a woman in science and business.
— Vivienne Ming
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
— Lewis Mumford
When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.'
— Mark Frauenfelder
Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.
— Harold E. Varmus
And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.
— Duane G. Carey
'Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in an hour. Nobody ever gets hurt, and nobody needs to care. You give up an hour of your time, and you don't really have to get involved. It's all plastic.
— David Gerrold
Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.
— Tim Hunt
I do not know what got me interested in technology. What was very clear to me very early on was that I was not interested in religion and that naturally increased my curiosity about science and technology, and I fundamentally believe the two are conflicting.
— Vinod Khosla
I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.
— Donald Norman
In the 1950s, the average person saw science as something that solved problems. With the advent of nuclear weapons and pollution, the idealistic aura around scientific research has been replaced by cynicism.
— Sheldon Lee Glashow
I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.
— Randy Newman
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
— Horace Walpole
Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.
— Michael Behe
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.
— Rupert Sheldrake
The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.
— Rupert Sheldrake
The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.
— Rupert Sheldrake
I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts, but they will miss the spirit.
— C. V. Raman
We want to demystify the rocket science and break it down for people so they can understand what is really going on and what the real opportunities are.
— Chad Anderson
Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.
— Charles Francis Richter
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.
— James Anthony Froude
When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
— Vernor Vinge
Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.
— James Balog
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
— Donald Knuth
Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
— Nathan Deal
American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.
— Martin Fleischmann
Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability.
— Graham Joyce
I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.
— Ellen Ochoa
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
— Ernest Holmes
We should be increasing research and development into our fossil fuel program.
— Tim Holden
People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
— Frederik Pohl
If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.
— Frederik Pohl
Art and science are intrinsically the same except for one thing. The universe is in control of your science, whether it's right or wrong, and the public are in control of your art - if they're going to buy it, if you're going to make a living that way.
— Harry Kroto
Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we have the ability to change our lives at any point we choose.
— Marla Gibbs
One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.
— Samuel Wilson
When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.
— Story Musgrave
Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.
— Stephen LaBerge
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
— John B. S. Haldane
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
— Walter Gilbert
These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.
— Michael Polanyi
Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious.
— Chen-Ning Yang
My education in the public schools of New York City between 1932 and 1944 was an excellent preparation for a life in science. Because of the Depression, these schools were able to attract a remarkably talented and dedicated collection of teachers who encouraged their students to strive for the highest levels of accomplishment.
— Robert Fogel
Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them.
— Charles H. Townes
I didn't study science beyond high school level, but I'd been reading a lot of science books by people like Richard Dawkins, Matt Ridley and Daniel Dennett. I also spent a year working on a fellowship in a research centre - the Allan Wilson Centre - where I got a hands-on look at their work sequencing DNA.
— Bernard Beckett
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
— Ashley Montagu
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
— Linus Pauling
I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.
— Henry Mintzberg
Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.
— Lennart Meri
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.
— John Constable
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
— Luther Burbank
The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.
— Paul Krugman
Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time.
— Edgar Mitchell
Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.
— Paul Berg
I actually wanted to be a forensic scientist for a while. When I was doing my Standard Grades, three of them were science subjects. The interest in science didn't wear off, but I found other interests.
— Emun Elliott
It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.
— Weili Dai
The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully real power by which the orator subdues may never be caught by science or preserved for the cruel dissecting knife of the critic.
— David Josiah Brewer
My own writing has perhaps more of an American flavor than a British one, but that's because the stories I've so far written have needed it. 'Empire State,' 'Seven Wonders' and 'The Age Atomic' are all very place-centric, where the setting itself is almost a character. But there is a universality to story that isn't just limited to science fiction.
— Adam Christopher
Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away.
— Henry Fonda
I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.
— Ann Druyan
Death is not the end it is but one more step in a great forward march made possible by the redemption wrought by the Savior. This is the spirit of true science - constant and eternal seeking. 
— Henry Eyring
Leave the atom alone.
— E. Y. Harburg
It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs.
— Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
I like the freedom of research. Plus, if I fail in science, I know I can always survive because I have an M.D. This has been my insurance policy.
— Shinya Yamanaka
Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.
— Peter M. Brant
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.
— Brian Aldiss
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
— Leon Battista Alberti
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
— Irving Langmuir
I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.
— Jack W. Szostak
There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.
— David Baltimore
I love science fiction. There are ways in which this community kept me and my partner alive through some very, very bad years, and I will always acknowledge that.
— Nalo Hopkinson
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
— Robert Quillen
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
— Thomas Kuhn
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
— Wilhelm Reich
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.
— Vannevar Bush
Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
— Sam Ervin
Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor.
— Claude Vorilhon
Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group.
— Gerald Edelman
Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'
— Dave Parnas
Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
— Jane Howard
The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.
— Olympia Brown
It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.
— Yuan T. Lee
If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science.
— Gregory Meeks
Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me.
— Keahu Kahuanui
The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
— Manly Hall
But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.
— Bruno Bauer
Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.
— Alfred Bester
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
— John von Neumann
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
— Vera Rubin
If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.
— Melvin Calvin
About the time you might start to think that science fiction - the real stuff, not the species of fantasy that goes under the name - is really dead, along comes a story by Cory Doctorow.
— Lois Tilton
There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.
— John D. Barrow
He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce to the nations of the world; while man has done all that can be done by science to bind us together.
— John Brough
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
— Albert Einstein
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
— Solomon Ortiz
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
— Beau Bridges
Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.
— Ricky Martin
Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
— Charles Kuralt
I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching.
— Justin Trudeau
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
— Sidney Hook
Experience is the teacher of all things.
— Julius Caesar
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops. 
— Henry Adams
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
Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.
— Maggie Gallagher
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
— Carl Jung
Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.
— Bill Gates
There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers. But here's what some new studies are also showing: We need better parents. Parents more focused on their children's education can also make a huge difference in a student's achievement.
— Thomas Friedman
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
— Aristotle
A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.
— John C. Maxwell
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
— John Henrik Clarke
The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'
— Maria Montessori
Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
— Joyce Meyer
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
— Vernon Law
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
— Mark Van Doren
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
A good teacher is a determined person.
— Gilbert Highet
Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.
— Adora Svitak
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
— Alexander the Great
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
— Lily Tomlin
A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.
— Eliphas Levi
Teaching is a profession in which capacity building should occur at every stage of the career - novices working with accomplished colleagues, skillful teachers sharing their craft, and opportunities for teacher leadership.
— Randi Weingarten
Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.
— Morihei Ueshiba
There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer - or maybe president.
— Herbert Hoover
I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.
— Erin Gruwell
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.
— Temple Grandin
It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
— Michael Morpurgo
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
— Philip Wylie
I touch the future. I teach.
— Christa McAuliffe
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
— Maria Montessori
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.
— Dan Rather
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust. 
— Gertrude Jekyll
The main difference in the effectiveness of teaching comes from the thoughts the teacher has had during the entire time of his or her existence and brings into the classroom. A teacher concerned with developing humans affects the students quite differently from a teacher who never thinks about such things.
— Rudolf Steiner
I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.
— James Levine
The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.
— Dorothea Dix
The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.
— Joe Manchin
There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.
— Robert Sternberg
The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come alive to us, to open our understanding. He left his Spirit with us until we join him in Heaven.
— Michele Bachmann
A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.
— Eva Amurri
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
— Anatole France
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!
— Anne Sullivan
If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.
— Guy Kawasaki
You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.
— Elisabeth Rohm
I would say that my role model, as far as just somebody leading by example, which to me is what a great youth counselor does - they are there to talk to and lead by example - would be my mom, but she wasn't a youth counselor. She was a teacher, and she is a good person and definitely one of the biggest influences in my life.
— Carrie Underwood
Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.
— Ezra Taft Benson
The task of the mediator is to help the parties to open difficult issues and nudge them forward in the peace process. The mediator's role combines those of a ship's pilot, consulting medical doctor, midwife and teacher.
— Martti Ahtisaari
I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
— Paul Wellstone
Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
— Andy Rooney
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
— Minna Antrim
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
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
— Thurgood Marshall
Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.
— Suze Orman
I remember my choir teacher in high school told me, 'When in doubt, sing loud.' I'm a terrible singer, but I always auditioned for the musicals, and would get cast in them because I really would just put it all out there. That was really good advice, and I think it works for everything, not just acting.
— Judy Greer
Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.
— Godfrey Reggio
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
— Warren Buffett
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
— Horace Mann
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
— Arthur Koestler
I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, taught me when I was a very young child. The first school I attended was a small building that went from first to sixth grade. There was one teacher for all of the students. There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.
— Rosa Parks
The fitness of the pupil is shown in his love for the acquisition of knowledge, his willingness to receive instruction, his reverence for learned and virtuous men, his attendance upon the teacher, and his execution of orders.
— Dayananda Saraswati
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
— Simone Weil
On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.
— Nelson Mandela
When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.
— Richard Simmons
I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told the class one day that we were going to do some exercises. He meant math exercises, but I stood up and started doing jumping jacks. To this day, I don't know what possessed me to do that, but all my friends cracked up.
— Will Ferrell
Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.
— Ezra Taft Benson
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
— Bruce Barton
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
— Warren Bennis
I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.
— Jack Ma
When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.
— Peter Drucker
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
— H. G. Wells
A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.
— Martin H. Fischer
The best teacher is very interactive.
— Bill Gates
I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that was the best class I ever took because those exams were awesome.' That's not what people want to talk about. It's not what influences people in one profession or another.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
What my father gave me more than anything else is great tutoring and a great brain, frankly. You know, my father's brother was a top person at MIT, went to MIT, graduated from MIT, was a teacher at MIT, a professor at MIT, a great engineer. I mean, you know, I have very good genes.
— Donald Trump
A teacher should have a creative mind.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Among the great names that adorn the roll of Nobel prize-winners in Medicine is that of Otto Meyerhof, my admired teacher and friend, to whose inspiration, guidance and encouragement I owe so very much.
— Severo Ochoa
I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.
— Leo Buscaglia
When I was a kid in junior high, I had an assignment to discuss how to rescue poor people in India. I remember my teacher at the time considered it an impossible problem. Now, we're not talking that way anymore. We're sure not talking about that for China. They're rescuing themselves thanks to globalization.
— Chrystia Freeland
We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.
— James Carville
One time, the teacher was the storehouse of knowledge. That will no longer be so. So what would a teacher do? A very good teacher will play the role of augmenter. Also, the teacher will be located anywhere and helping students.
— Shiv Nadar
I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it.
— Brian Jacques
Peer mediation is a chance for students to work with other students to help them resolve problems, arguments, disagreements without having to get the teacher or the administration involved.
— Janet Reno
I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.
— Les Dawson
As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.
— A. S. Byatt
Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.
— Wendy Kopp
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
— Dr. Seuss
A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.
— Ellen Ochoa
Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them... a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother. It only takes one person, and it doesn't really matter who it is.
— Sean Covey
When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.
— Cecilia Bartoli
Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.
— Warren Spector
A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
— H. L. Mencken
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
— Soren Kierkegaard
A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.
— James S. Coleman
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
— Jack Welch
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
— Maria Montessori
I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.
— Eva Longoria
So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.
— Donald Norman