Abbe Dimnet Famous Quotes
"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves."
Abbe Dimnet Quotations
He who tip-toes cannot stand he who strides cannot walk.
Lao Tzu
"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education."
Maya Angelou
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
Jonathan Swift
"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."
William James
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Norman Cousins
Life is just one damned thing after another.
Elbert Hubbard
"When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity this is the only way to make it palatable."
Paul De Gondi
The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.
Robert J Sawyer
"Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence."
Norman Podhoretz
Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.
Seneca