Jack H. Adamson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

  • Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.

  • All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

  • He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.

  • It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.

  • From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of the Vedic scriptures.

  • Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

  • The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.

  • Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.

  • One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.