Top 1198 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Educators - Page 20

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.

You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world.

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

A hundred children, a hundred individuals who are people--not people-to-be, not people of tomorrow, but people now, right now--today.

Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, because that's what they're constantly exposed to as the heroes of our time.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

Saints are ordinary people who do what they do for the love of Jesus, say what they must say without fear, love their neighbor even when they are cursed by him, and live without regret over yesterday or fear of tomorrow.

So many people view the war on drugs as a failure, as something that was perhaps intended and carried out with good intentions but very badly executed.

When you learn to read and write, it opens up opportunities for you to learn so many other things. When you learn to read, you can then read to learn. And it's the same thing with coding. If you learn to code, you can code to learn. Now some of the things you can learn are sort of obvious. You learn more about how computers work.

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water where societal need is greatest, and to allow trade-offs between alternative uses.

Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, 'All who seek, find.'

At some time in the history of the universe, there were no human minds, and at some time later, there were. Within the blink of a cosmic eye, a universe in which all was chaos and void came to include hunches, beliefs, sentiments, raw sensations, pains, emotions, wishes, ideas, images, inferences, the feel of rubber, Schadenfreude, and the taste of banana ice cream.

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

We need to do everything we can to ensure every single child has an effective teacher every day, which means we need to identify who are the most highly effective teachers, and we should recognize and reward them for the incredible professionals that they are.

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.

Charter schools were supposed to compete with public schools, and in turn, that competition was meant to improve education. But that wasn't the end result.

No work-family balance will ever fully take hold if the social conditions that might make it possible - men who are willing to share parenting and housework, communities that value work in the home as highly as work on the job, and policymakers and elected officials who are prepared to demand family-friendly reforms - remain out of reach.

Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.

The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response.

All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.

A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.

It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted.

We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

The reaction was immediate. The blood flow was in proportion to how much the painting was liked.

The flu is very unpredictable when it begins and in how it takes off.

The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so.

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.

There's no destination. The journey is all that there is, and it can be very, very joyful.

Philosophically, I would say that I am Buddhist.

It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.

But effective regulation at the European Union level can make a massive contribution to achieving our shared goals of improving competitiveness, jobs and growth.

All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma.

The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

When in doubt, one can rarely go wrong by going public.

Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.

I am a huge consumer of social networks, and I utilize Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I'm interested and am learning more about Tumblr and other visually dominant sites.

I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us in one of America's darkest hours.

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to make a record for posterity; procuring documents and interviews from those sources will be difficult if the fruits are only one subpoena away from disclosure.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

You've probably noticed how when someone says hello or smiles at you, your automatic reaction is to say hello or smile back.

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.

It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral.

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.