Lao Tzu Quotes
Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have taught, I also teach; verily, I will make it the root of my teaching.
Quotes to Explore
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When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.
Zig Ziglar
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
Saint Basil
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
Saint Augustine
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I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.
Barry Larkin
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You look at the NBA: there's all these young kids that are drafted on potential. They go to bad teams, they're in bad locker rooms, and now we got this analytics stuff that doesn't teach kids how to play. We've got these workout coaches that don't teach kids how to play basketball.
Larry Brown
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
Quintilian
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A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.
Orson Pratt
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While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.
Sam Harris
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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
Maimonides
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If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
Fran Lebowitz
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I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.
Salman Rushdie
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Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
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I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.
Ike Barinholtz
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I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books.
Nalo Hopkinson
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde
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I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.
Patricia McBride
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Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.
Edmonia Lewis
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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
Saint Bernard
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It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is possible.
Gautama Buddha
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I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.
Nolan Bushnell
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I don't have an endgame. My game is to take on any bad guys I see out there. And do the best I can until they put me under the carpet.
Carl Paladino
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And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors.
Plato
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Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have taught, I also teach; verily, I will make it the root of my teaching.
Lao Tzu