We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough.
Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 62
It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students.
Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job requirement for university administrators.
Michael Barone
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Robert F. Kennedy
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
We're not here to get over our humanness, but rather to accept and make peace with it... and to remember our Divine nature.
Sonia Choquette
... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.
Catharine Beecher
Reality and truth are not products of rational or linear thinking. They are derived from absolute wisdom as it manifests itself spontaneously, coming from the light of the Spirit.
Nirmala Srivastava
Painting, like music, has nothing to do with the reproduction of nature, nor interpretation of intellectual meanings. Whoever is able to feel the beauty of colors and forms has understood nonobjective painting.
Hilla von Rebay
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai E. Stevenson
How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't do it alone.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
The Church in the Philippines is called to acknowledge and combat the causes of the deeply rooted inequality and injustice which mar the face of Filipino society, plainly contradicting the teaching of Christ.
Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.
Hugh Mackay
