Teacher Quotes

“Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours ... never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness.”

“Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.”

“Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.”

“We should respect all people.”

“Friends create the world anew each day.Without their loving care, courage would notsuffice to keep heartsstrong for life.”

“How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.”

“Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.”

“Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes.”

“When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.”

“I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.”

“The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.”

“That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.”

“We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.”

“What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.”

“I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.”

“When one doors closes, another door opens.”

“There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.”

“I have found life so beautiful.”

“It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me...if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me.”

“We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take them into partnership in the affairs of the state. We hoped that their common sense would triumph over prejudices and stupidity. We thought their boasted sense of justice would overcome the errors that so often fetter the human spirit; but we have always gone away empty handed. We shall beg no more.”

“We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.”

“The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.”

“I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.”

“No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.”

“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.”