Cat Quotes - Page 14

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you.

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

Say the Holy Rosary. Blessed be that monotony of Hail Mary's which purifies the monotony of your sins!

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect and who obey their governors are educated. Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Half of what you will accomplish in a day will be determined before you leave home. Three quarters of what you achieve will be determined before you enter the classroom door

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.

If a future Pope teaches anything contrary to the Catholic Faith, do not follow him.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

With regard to performance, commitment, effort, dedication, there is no middle ground. Or you do something very well or not at all.

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poorer longer...often forever; give them knowledge instead.

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated. ... Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.

It's never enough to just tell people about some new insight. Rather, you have to get them to experience it a way that evokes its power and possibility. Instead of pouring knowledge into people's heads, you need to help them grind anew set of eyeglasses so they can see the world in a new way.