W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

W. E. B. Du Bois

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• My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.

  

  Zach Anner
  • True
  • Rest
  • Best

• You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'

  

  RaeLynn
  • Good
  • God
  • True

• The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • God
  • True
  • Human

• I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • True
  • Want
  • Potential

• I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Writing
  • History
  • Education

• Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Small

• Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Men
  • Down
  • Dinner

• The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Love
  • True
  • Nature

• In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Great
  • Giving
  • Education

• No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Men
  • Me
  • Woman

• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • School
  • Education

• I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Up
  • True
  • Water

• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • True
  • Religion

• Men are what their mothers made them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Mom
  • Mother`s

• It's true that hydropower exploitation can bring economic development, but not necessarily to the benefit of local people.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • True
  • Development

• It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Life
  • Remember
  • True

• There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.

  

  Gail Collins
  • True
  • House
  • Running

• I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

  

  Ira Hayes
  • Men
  • Honor
  • Hero

• I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a 'Terrible Towel.'

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Love
  • True
  • True Love

• Like many of her sex, Sophie was fiercely competitive with other women, working on the crackpot theory that if she could be better in some way, men would like her more, respect her. Make her happy. She never cottoned on that the men she was attracted to, the men who found her attractive, didn’t like women.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Men
  • Women
  • She

• A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • Children

• As governor, I want to make sure that Arizona's hardworking taxpayers get to keep more of what they earn.

  

  Doug Ducey

• I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • True
  • Education