Charles William Eliot Quotes
The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.Charles William Eliot
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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.
Dana Spiotta -
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
Edmund Burke -
Education is the mother of leadership.
Wendell Willkie -
Doing the right thing has power.
Laura Linney -
When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
Abu Bakr -
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.
Malala Yousafzai
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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?'
Samuel Butler -
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.
Eddie Redmayne -
I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
Samuel Barber -
The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
Hamza Yusuf -
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.
Karen Allen -
All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Vince Lombardi -
My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
Dalai Lama -
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Gaston Bachelard -
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butler -
I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
Randy Schekman -
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
Wendell Phillips
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What does labor want? We want more school houses and less jails. More books and less guns. More learning and less vice. More leisure and less greed. More justice and less revenge. We want more … opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
Samuel Gompers -
[Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is a woman named Septima Clark."She created the Citizenship Schools [where civil-rights activists taught basic literacy and political education classes].
Marian Wright Edelman -
I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.
Mary Oliver -
Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.
Philip K. Dick -
I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
Mac DeMarco -
The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.
Charles William Eliot