Cat Quotes - Page 17

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.

Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

The Internet is merely a new means of communication, that's all it is. It serves the purpose of getting information, which it is fantastic at. I mean, I live by the Internet in terms of research and it's incredible - there's nothing that you can't find out about. It's not stopped me going to bookshops but I must say that I don't go into as many because any book I want.

Good communication is not just data transfer. You need to show people something that addresses their anxieties, that accepts their anger, that is credible in a very gut-level sense, and that evokes faith in the vision.

Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

We need to be much clearer about what we do and do not know so that we don't continually confuse the two. If I could have one wish for education, it would be the systematic ordering of our basic knowledge in such a way that what is known and true can be acted on, while what is superstition, fad, and myth can be recognized as such and used only when there is nothing else to support us in our frustration and despair.

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

So you know cats are interesting. They are kind of like girls. If they come and talk to you it's great. But if you try to talk to them it doesn't always go so well.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.

True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans-- anything except reason.

The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.

Well you know you’re really dedicated to something when you lie about being hurt so no one will make you stop

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.