Cat Quotes - Page 20

Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left.

Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

God did not create a human family made up of segregated, dissociated, mutually independent members. No; he would have them all united by the bond of total love of Him and consequent self-dedication to assisting each other to maintain that bond intact.

The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.

The discovery of electrical waves... has had a profound influence on civilization; it has been instrumental in providing the methods which may bring all inhabitants of the world within hearing distance of each other and has potentialities social, educational and political which we are only beginning to realize.

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

You don't have to be educated to be a president.

I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

A different language is a different vision of life.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.

Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.