Will Durant Quotes

Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.

Will Durant

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• Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Teachers
  • Degree

• We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Will
  • Expression
  • Harmony

• Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • City
  • Smart
  • Harmony

• We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.

  

  Ralph Regula
  • Military
  • Go
  • Teachers

• Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Teacher
  • Teachers
  • Schools

• Everybody wants to talk about sectarian conflicts of the war in Iraq, but the fact of the matter is, Sunnis have lived with Shias in harmony more in the confines of Iraq, in that land, than they have been in conflict. That's an historical fact.

  

  Jack Keane
  • War
  • Harmony
  • Conflict

• The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Great
  • Humanity
  • Moral

• In almost every task involving form, there are dozens, often hundreds of contradictory elements, which need to be forced to work in harmony by man's will. This harmony can be acheived only through art.

  

  Alvar Aalto
  • Work
  • Art
  • Harmony

• All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.

  

  Zeno of Citium
  • Life
  • Good
  • Nature

• You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Time
  • Peace

• But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Real
  • Beauty
  • Expression

• By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Law
  • Feel
  • Ability

• Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and women made up 40 percent of Afghanistan’s doctors, 70 percent of its teachers and 30 percent of its civil servants. A small number of women even held important political posts as members of Parliament and judges. Most women did not wear the burqa.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Up
  • Important
  • Women

• It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Character
  • Harmony
  • Yield

• Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

  

  Charles William Eliot
  • Friends
  • Books
  • Teachers

• When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Up
  • Fire
  • Cold

• My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way.

  

  Jeff Goldblum
  • My Life
  • Teachers
  • Transformed

• There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Harmony
  • Opposites
  • Lyre

• The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.

  

  Plato
  • Men
  • Love
  • Happiness

• Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Teachers
  • Don't Believe
  • Religious Books

• I could never stand big-mouthed types. I had problems with that at high school. I’ve still got the scars on my fists from the teeth of the guys I hit so that they’d finally shut up. I came from England to Canada, of course, and was often ridiculed because I had a strange accent. I was expelled from school and it was a long time before I could control myself. But the impulse remained: a punch in the mouth to get some peace and quiet.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Mouth
  • Impulse
  • Punch

• I don't tend to stand still for very long.

  

  Robin Trower Procol Harum
  • Long
  • Tend
  • Standstill

• Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.

  

  Abe Burrows
  • Humor
  • Alive
  • Killing

• Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.

  

  Will Durant
  • Harmony
  • Teachers
  • Educate