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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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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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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Authentic power is the real deal. You can't inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can't lose it. You don't need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.
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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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Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
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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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I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.
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To be wealthy you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence.
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The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.
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The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.
