The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
- Topic: Learning, Perception, Travel
- Location: Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from St. Augustine
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
Unless you believe you will not understand.
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
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In school, you are given the lesson first. One the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.
A student is not a container you have to fill, but a torch you have to light up.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature; it is our future that lays down the law of our today.
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling to get adapted to my kind of fooling.
Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives, forgetting loses the lesson.
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.
You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.
