When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
To have a baby, raise him and educate him, is something very valuable. But we, as a society, don't see it that way.
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.
I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist.
I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.
God made us unique ,creative and we screwed ourselves with education
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.
You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.
Mechanized warfare still left room for human qualities to play an important part in the issue. ‘Automatic warfare’ cancels them out, except in a passive form. Archidamus is at last being justified. Courage, skill and patriotism become shrinking a...
When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a powerful beacon. If the two people were as solidl...
…. by the time they have reached the middle of their life’s journey, few people remember how they have managed to arrive at themselves, at their amusements, their point of view, their wife, character, occupation and successes, but they cannot hel...
If a person is plagued by religious doubts,as many are in their youth, he takes to persecuting unbelievers; if troubled by love, he turns it into marriage; and when overcome by some other enthusiasm, he takes refuge from the impossibility of living c...
Every individual has some qualities that endear him to some other. And per contra, I doubt if there is any class which is not detestable to some other class. Artists, police, the clergy, "reds," foxhunters, Freemasons, Jews, "heaven-born," women's cl...
Laziness is not particularly terrible or wonderful. Rather it has a basic living quality that deserves to be experienced just as it is. Perhaps we’ll find an irritating, pulsating quality in laziness. We might feel it as dull and heavy or as vulner...
We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without particular moral justifications that invariably offend; we want good without having to name ev...
In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for a moment Nicholas could not help admiring them again. During free time he had almost never looked up from the pages he was reading, but now he saw th...
We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it still with us. Ab...
