The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is:”Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want...

If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.

You can choose to have life as your teacher or to make life your student

We can say that the people closest to God are teachers who devoted themselves to being beneficial to others. For they are the ones who build the human; they are the ones who build the...

The students lurked on the edges of their teachers’ lives for years, and brought bulletins from their own lives, which over time began to include lovers, ambitions, an upward trajectory.

There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.” ~Deidre O’Neill, known as Edde (p. 213)

Teachers can be a living example to their students. Not that teachers should look for students to idealize them. One who is worth idealizing does not care whether others idealize them or not. Everyone needs...

In life pain is a teacher you will never forget

A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information….The key is the teacher.

Describing Robert Bunsen:As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was greatest.

never use sarcasm in an email

I understood the life around me better, not from love, which everybody acknowledges to be a great teacher, but from estrangement, to which nobody has attributed the power of reinforcing insight

Remember, you are the true guru of yourself. You are therefore always with Guru – your soul. However, at various stages you meet mentors. Mentors are like lighthouse who supports navigation in a journey called...

I’ll train and train and become the best, then I’ll lead all the other warriors!

His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. His death is one of the greatest losses ever to occur to British science.{Describing Ernest Rutherford upon his death at age...

It’s iron that can sharpen iron; wood cannot do that.

The truth is that we are the embodiment of Life, we are born into this world as a result of a miracle, and later we are lost amidst the multitude of teachings and dogmas. After...

MotherHushed and sacred silencefills the dawning skyI ponder in this momentof our journey which is nigh…

Turn a major mistake into a master mentor, learn from it.

There is no humility in calling yourself a Christian; placing Christ in the role of colleague. The humility lies in the truth of your imperfection and a more accurate description as a student of Christianity;...

The teacher you need is the person you’re living with.

None should say: ‘I can trust’ or ‘I cannot trust’ until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Children want the same things we want.To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

A good teacher always refuses to have disciples! Let everyone goes his own way, in his own path instead of following others! If the direction is correct, there will be a meeting in the same...

Are you sorry? Do you wish you could do it all again and go off and write novels instead of being a teacher?No. You can’t trade what is for what might have been.

I was maybe 19 years old. And I always remember that it was a great feeling of happiness. Because of that, I said to Myles that it’s no different for me if I am read­ing...

I think I’d fall for you no matter what, Claire. You’re kind of awesome.

Well we’re waiting here in Allentown,For the Pennsylvania we never found,For the promises our teachers gave,If we worked hard,If we behaved…So the graduations hang on the wall,But they never really helped us at all,No they...

Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.

Love isn’t stackable and interlocking, like boxes or Legos. Love is like a one-legged man standing on a three-legged chair that is placed on top of a two-legged piano. I should know, because I’m the...

Never give up on horses, they are the only humans that don’t speak.

Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!

Experience is the best teacher.

A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.

Wisdom is the most-sought intellectual degree whose subjects are regularly learned throughout life with an open mind in an open university called life and taught by a teacher who is none other than self-experience only.

0 plus 100 equals 100. But so does 50 plus 50, only with more balance. Let this be a lesson in love.

No matter how you were taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher’s smiling face to the stage. You got to put on that smile.

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

He had never got so much back for himself from any pupil as he did from Miss Kronborg. From the first she had stimulated him; something in her personality invariably affected him. Now that he...

The past will be your teacher if you learn from it; your master if you live in it.

Everyone has to start somewhere,’ he says, his eyes dark and smoldering, his fingers seeking the scar on my face.The one on my forehead. The one that’s hidden under my bangs. The one he has...

The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

If you are a student, try to be a teacher; if you are a teacher, try to be a student!

The wise teacher appears, not for the structure of the student; but for the freedom of the people.

School should become the place where teachers, not just students, learn.

I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself “Dijkstra would not have liked this”,...

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Observation and expansion are two elements of meditation. While a teacher may guide you to have the right posture and give instruction on following the breath, no one can teach you about the experience. It...

I think you’ll be a great teacher,” said Gary. That’s his role in my life: blind encourager and ambassador of false senses of security.