Cat Quotes - Page 26

Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Do not look for signs. Do not look for experiences. Do not be so complicated. Become like a child. See everything with awe.

The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for twelve years. Is this deadly routine really necessary? And if so, for what? Don't hide behind reading, writing, and arithmetic as a rationale, because 2 million happy homeschoolers have surely put that banal justification to rest.

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life.

The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.