H Mumford Jones Famous Quotes
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
H Mumford Jones Quotations
"In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period"
Antonio Gramsci
"I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine every man for himself, and God for us all."
Miguel de Cervantes
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway
"Spouses often point out each other's deficiencies. Instead, we should be each other's motivator. My husband touches my spirit, and I try my best to motivate him, too."
Kenneth Hartley Blanchard
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
John Dewey
"If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring."
Marya Mannes
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions.
Joseph Conrad
"Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility."
Katherine Paterson
Memory feeds imagination.
Amy Tan
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard