Charles William Eliot Quotes
The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.
Quotes to Explore
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Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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Doing the right thing has power.
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In the education of the American people, I am Recess.
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When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
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I've worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I'll think, 'Have you stopped learning?' They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again.
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I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
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Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized that the equilibrium of any particular aspect of nature rests on the equivalence of its opposites.
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When we push against who we naturally are, we feel stress, things don't progress easily, we beat ourselves up for getting crappy results, and everything is an effort.
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The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.
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God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.
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The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.
