Cat Quotes - Page 28

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.

Don't confuse legibility with communication.

There is no education like adversity.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up.

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.

Well, I'm more lopsided than a one-legged badger.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street!

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.