Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object.

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one] has the [knowledge of the-Self] essence of all religions.

Together, they at once dodged those parts of themselves and magnified them, making for enigmatic harmony and anarchy.

The heights by men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.

Oh how daily life is. (Ah que la vie est quotidienne.)

The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it works or not.

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.

Plant the seed of positivity into your mind, nourish it daily with love and happiness will flower, as fear begins to die.

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.

The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.