"Teacher"❓

Great teachers can lead you to the doors of understanding, but it is up to you to enter.—Lao Tzu

Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.—James 3:1

These [Zen] teachers could through long practice constantly keep their minds buoyant, casting aside useless encumbrances of idle thoughts; bright, driving off the dark cloud of melancholy; tranquil, putting down turbulent waves of passion; pure, cleaning away the dust and ashes of illusion; and serene, brushing off the cobwebs of doubt and fear. The only means of securing all this is to realize the conscious union with the Universal Life through the Enlightened Consciousness, which can be awakened by dint of Dhyana [meditation].—Kaiten Nukariya

This old man now speaking to you also dreams that yours will become a generation of teachers! Teachers of humanity. Teachers of compassion....Teachers of hope.—Pope Francis

All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.—Krishnamurti

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.—Elbert Hubbard

There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you—Elie Wiesel

Was Christ called a complainer against the world? Yet all these great teachers and preachers must have had a most deep and ingrained sense, a continual gnawing feeling of the miseries and wrongs of the world. Otherwise they would not have been impelled to devote life and death to redress them.—Florence Nightingale

There is no easy way to be a teacher or a disciple, but to receive and to pass on a ‘peace-that-passeth-all-understanding’, is the only thing of value in this mystery we call life.—Huston Smith

Listen to all the teachers in the woods. Watch the trees, the animals and all living thing—you will learn more from them than from books.—Joe Coyhis

When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: ‘Only stand out of my light.’ Perhaps someday we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.—John W. Gardner