Cat Quotes - Page 23

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

New facts often trigger new ideas

Music means communication to me. I say 'listen you people out there, listen to my music, let's be one.' Music is a friend to me when I am lonely, when I am blue. You can't define music 'cause music is cosmos and it knows no barrier or definition. You have to feel music to dig it.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his [Jesus] paths by the guidance of the Gospel.

The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.

Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

The appeal of the cat lies in the very fact that she has formed no close bond with [man], that she has the uncompromising independence of a tiger or a leopard while she is hunting in his stables and barns: that she still remains mysterious and remote when she is rubbing herself gently against the legs of her mistress or purring contentedly in front of the fire.

There isn't a right way to become educated; there are as many ways as there are fingerprints.

Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

EDUCATION, n. The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. To give children a good education in manners, arts and science, is important; to give them a religious education is indispensable; and an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties.