Anne Sullivan Quotes

Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

I would like to enlighten people.

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.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

When you're teaching a hard concept and the students all have puzzled looks on their faces and then suddenly you can see that 'aha' moment, that they got it, that's just an incredible thing.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Eureka [I have found it]

No enemy is more harmful than ignorance.

What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

I like to open people's eyes.

If we want to enlighten people or give them new thoughts and ideas, we have to be willing to do the work of educating them.

Light itself is a revelation.