Cat Quotes - Page 11

Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.

One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic of a change. The education process can involve one-on-one discussions, presentations to groups, or memos and reports.

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

God is in the details.

We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others.

Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air.

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

Education was not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It was an initiation into the life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage.

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.