Cat Quotes - Page 19

The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication.

Look here: "Mo' money, mo' problems," my ass. You's a naive cat if you still believe that.

Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation. "I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!

Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility.

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning.

Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.

You cannot not communicate. Every behavior is a kind of communication. Because behavior does not have a counterpart (there is no anti-behavior), it is not possible not to communicate.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Sometimes I get a little sad, and I feel like being alone. Then I talk to my cat about it, and he reminds me I’m James Franco. Then we dance.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise.

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

Understanding comes through communication, and through communication we find the way to peace.

Learning never exhausts the mind.