Cat Quotes - Page 92

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

Meaning is made in conversation, reality is created in communication, and knowledge is generated through social interaction.... Language is the vehicle through which we create our understanding of the world.

What is magic? In the deepest sense, magic is an experience. It's the experience of finding oneself alive within a world that is itself alive. It is the experience of contact and communication between oneself and something that is profoundly different from oneself: a swallow, a frog, a spider weaving its web.

When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.

In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.

Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.

Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.

Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead!

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.

Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the person. As such, the teaching of love should be the central core of all early childhood curriculum with all other subjects growing naturally out of such teaching.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.

I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

Without justification salvation is not of grace, but of works.

If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

The importance of education plays a huge role.

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.

As a college coach, I felt you could make a difference in a player's life. There was an educational aspect I thought was important.