Today Quotes
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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.Ovid
Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.Leonard Bernstein
Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.Leonard Bernstein
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.Confucius
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.Confucius
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.John Locke
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.John Locke
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.Maria Montessori
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.Maria Montessori