Cat Quotes - Page 25

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

Today our (Society of Jesus) prime educational objective must be to form men (and women) for others; men (and women) who will live not for themselves but for God and his Christ - for the God-man who lived and died for all the world; men (and women) who cannot even conceive of love of God which does not include love for the least of their neighbors; men (and women) completely convinced that love of God which does not issue in justice for others is a farce.

God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same feelings in consequence of the laws of the conjunction of body and soul.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.

One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day.

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

One must see God in everyone.

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room, I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.

It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.