Quotes of: Formal-education Keyword

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

Adam Smith

When it comes to education all obstacles must be removed. This must become a priority for humanity.

Alex Zar

Strategy is born when a calculated risk meets an educated guess

Samer Chidiac

... the best education is self-discipline with good principles through human university.

Uzoma Nnadi

The past is an educational toy for the present. It should be discarded the moment its usefulness is outgrown.

Life

Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do.

Mike Huckabee

This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework that would guarantee that the men who fought felt that they themselves in a ...

Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power

Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has a history that is more than a history of its formal evolution, our feelings must have a history too. Perhaps certai...

Diary of a Bad Year

She wanted to sit in the pub with him the way Sam did with Steve, the way Matty and Karen had done last weekend with their boyfriends, to hold his hand as they walked down the street, to be able to smile in public at him, not this controlled, agonisi...

Happily Ever After

Praxeology is a theoretical and systematic, not a historical, science. Its scope is human action as such, irrespective of all environmental, accidental, and individual circumstances of the concrete acts. Its cognition is purely formal and general wit...

Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

We can never stop searching for Heaven, since there is always more of it than we can see. There, as in those tales that evolve endlessly into other tales, stories have no end. They are hardly ever the stories you know, the official ones, in which wis...

The Book of Heaven: A Novel

His own life suddenly seemed repellently formal. Whom did he know or what did he know and whom did he love? Sitting on the stump under the burden of his father's death and even the mortality inherent in the dying, wildly colored canopy of leaves, he ...

Legends of the Fall

Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, when you're near someone, when you touch them on some level that is deeper than the uselessly structured formality of casual civilized interaction, th...

White Night

You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your...

Octave Mirbeau

Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always. A promise, like a reward for persisting through life so long alone. A belief in each other and the possibility of love. A decision to ignore simply rise above the pain in the past. A covenant, whic...

Lucas

Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know me (although you have seen me, smiled at me). I know you (although not so well as I would like. I want to be the...

Neil Gaiman

We all know that there are language forms that are considered impolite and out of order, no matter what truths these languages might be carrying. If you talk with a harsh, urbanized accent and you use too many profanities, that will often get you bar...

Junot Diaz

Hit Girl: [after Hit-Girl and Kick-Ass have landed on the roof of Mindy's building with the jet-pack] Thanks, Kick-Ass. My daddy... He would have been proud of *both* of us. Dave Lizewski: [removes his mask] Dave... [extends his hand] Dave Lizewski: ...

Kick-Ass

Since God is truth, a contempt for truth is equally a contempt for God.

A Christian Philosophy of Education

Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.

The Coming Storm

Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

The Devil's Dictionary