William Butler Yeats Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by William Butler Yeats
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
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Education Sayings
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The highest result of education is tolerance.
- Helen Keller
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
Education is what survives when
what has been learned has been forgotten.
- B. F. Skinner
Education is not the answer to the question.
Education is the means to the answer to all questions.
- William Allin
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
- Edward Everett
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
All that is valuable in human society
depends upon the opportunity for development
accorded the individual.
- Albert Einstein
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people ...
They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
The philosophy of the school room in one generation
will be the philosophy of government in the next.
- Abraham Lincoln
The most important outcome of education
is to help students become independent of formal education.
- Paul E. Gray
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge
and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
Education is the most powerful weapon
which you can use to change the world.
- Nelson Mandela
Education is what remains after one has forgotten
what one has learned in school.
- Albert Einstein
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
- George Washington Carver
Education is not a preparation for life;
education is life itself.
- John Dewey
The highest education is that which
does not merely give us information
but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham
Intellectual Sayings
God is a metaphor for that which transcends
all levels of intellectual thought.
It's as simple as that.
- Joseph Campbell
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life,
and urge doing.
I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God Sayings
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
- Ram Dass
We are most like God when we forgive.
- Anonymous
You are within God.
God is within you.
- Peace Pilgrim
When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- Anonymous
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Your talent is God's gift to you.
- Leo Buscaglia
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You are the Face of God
- Karen Drucker
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Look In The Mirror to See The Face Of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
We see God face to face every hour,
and know the savor of Nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God is in, through, around and for us.
- Ernest Holmes
Today is my day to see in myself the face of god.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree -
after a year and a thousand miles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God gives some more than others
because some accept more than others.
- Ernest Holmes
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
From the solemn gloom of the temple
children run out to sit in the dust,
God watches them play and forgets the priest.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Let Go, Let God.
- Anonymous
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
We live in a spiritual Universe.
God is in, through, around and for us.
- Ernest Holmes
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking
becomes clear - nothing is missing.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
The will of God will never take you
to where the grace of God will not protect you.
- Anonymous
God has no religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Albert Einstein
God is a verb, not a noun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Everything is God
- don Miguel Ruiz
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
- Soren Kierkegaard
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
God is not what you imagine
or what you think you understand.
If you understand you have failed.
- Saint Augustine
See God in every person, place, and thing,
and all will be well in your world.
- Louise Hay
Non-violence requires a double faith,
faith in God and also faith in man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
God helps them that help themselves.
- Algernon Sidney
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