W C Sellar Famous Quotes
For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much.
W C Sellar Quotations
"The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them."
Philo Judaeus
"It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory."
Blaise Pascal
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others."
M Scott Peck
What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
Law is mind without reason.
Aristotle
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth
Sophocles
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
H G Wells
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David Thoreau
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette