Cat Quotes

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.

Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

Men are built, not born.... Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of stone or wood.... I'll make it a thief, a gunman or a dope fiend. The possibilities of shaping in any direction are almost endless.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

The more medicated, the more dedicated.

My mind is living on cloud 9 and this 9 is never on vacation.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men who are creative, inventive, and discovers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered.

Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.

People have become educated, but have not become human.

There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.