Cat Quotes - Page 21

Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools...can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.

Love our Lady. And she will obtain abundant grace to help you conquer in your daily struggle.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live.

Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us --- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.

All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions-and society-so that the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural diversity, our passion for justice, and our love of freedom.

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

You can stick a BMW badge on a dead cat - and people would still buy it.

The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Love isn't complicated, people are.

Civility means a great deal more than just being nice to one another. It is complex and encompasses learning how to connect successfully and live well with others, developing thoughtfulness, and fostering effective self-expression and communication. Civility includes courtesy, politeness, mutual respect, fairness, good manners, as well as a matter of good health. Taking an active interest in the well-being of our community and concern for the health of our society is also involved in civility.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.