Cat Quotes - Page 79

The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to a lesser degree, of the aesthetic emotions. Most of us have forgotten that we are not only brain and will, senses and feelings; we are also spirit. Modern man has for the most part lost touch with the truest and highest aspect of himself; and the result of this inward alienation can be seen all too plainly in his restlessness, his lack of identity and his loss of hope.

We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft.

I dreamed impossible dreams. And the dreams turned out beyond anything I could possibly imagine. You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.

We are superior to the competition because we hire employees who work in an environment of belonging and purpose. We foster a climate where the employee can deliver what the customer wants. You cannot deliver what the customer wants by controlling the employee.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

I'm a very social person and I love being out in the world, and the feeling of not having that is the scariest thing to me.

It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.

If you learn from Saint Thérèse to depend on God alone and serve him with a wholly pure and detached heart, then you can join with your whole soul in singing the jubilant song of the holy Virgin, “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. For he has done great things for me, and holy is his name.” And like little St. Thérèse you will be able to say at the end, “I do not regret that I have given myself to love.”

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go to church.

It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.

I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.

90% of all management problems are caused by miscommunication.

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.

Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.

I've always been mad about cats.

It is easier to live as a Protestant, but better to die as a Catholic.