Profanity makes ignorance audible.
-- Jack Mabley
Tell a child what to think, and you make him a slave to your knowledge. Teach a child to think, and you make all knowledge his slave.
-- Tait
Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.
-- Buddhist Udanavarga
Children become literate through association with literate people.
-- Anonymous
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
-- James B. Conant
Education is not the filling of pail, but the lighting of a fire.
-- William Butler Yeats
What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. What I do, I understand.
-- Confucious
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
-- Ida B. Wells
To see what is right and not do it is want of courage or of principle.
-- Confucius
1 comment:
I especially like that first one, Chuck.
I'm glad you read more about Ida B. - that was a good quote, except I didn't see a way to include it in my post. You found the perfect venue for it!
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