St. Jerome Quotes

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

every day a million miracles begin at sunrise!

The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.

Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.

Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.

The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.

In reference to right answers - Knowing is a process, not a product.

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully. To learn structure in short, is to learn how things are related.

The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.

The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an approach to action, not a form of activity.

So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.

We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

The fish will be the last to discover water.

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.

Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done.

Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared.

I told you to sell it, not give it away.

Getting an education at MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.

To perceive is to categorize, to conceptualize is to categorize, to learn is to form categories, to make decisions is to categorize.

Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.

Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.

If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.