Our task must be to free ourselves…by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- Topic: Knowledge, Learning
- Location: Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined or the insect, as well for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
A student is not a container you have to fill, but a torch you have to light up.
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For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.
I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
You teach best what you most need to learn.
There is nothing we can do that will bring us more in the way of rewards than the daily striving to become better adjusted, happier, more productive human beings. It’s a lifetime job and worth every minute we spend on it.
