Cat Quotes - Page 40

When I was little, I would burn ants with a magnifying glass. But now that I'm older, I'm more of a cat guy.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.

Each of you knows that the foundation of our faith is charity. Without it, our religion would crumble. We will never be truly Catholic unless we conform our entire lives to the two commandments that are the essence of the Catholic faith: to love the Lord, our God, with all our strength, and to love our neighbor as ourselves.

We need to create schools that are organized to meet the needs of the kids they serve instead of what we've been doing. We expect kids to adjust to the schools and if they can't, we say something is wrong with the child - instead of focusing on engagement and nurturing the love of learning in kids.

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.

The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art.

Regardless of communication between man and man, speech is a necessary condition for the thinking of the individual in solitary seclusion. In appearance, however, language develops only socially, and man understands himself only once he has tested the intelligibility of his words by trial upon others.

Think you have nine lives, do you? I saved you once.... don't make me save you again.

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.