"Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live."

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Source : Charlotte Mason (2013). “School Education”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

Charlotte Mason

#Educational Quotes #School Quotes #Abiding Quotes

“I just think God put me on this earth as a tool... showing people you can achieve stuff once you set you mind to things, that it can be accomplished.”
“Think of all the smart people made stupid by flaws of character. The finest watch isn't fine long when used as a hammer.”
“I'm one of those people who feels like I have to be strong for those people who may not be able to find that strength. I feel like I have to speak up for those people whose voices go unheard.”

Source : Source: www.popsugar.com
“The warm and radiant yes of the heart is perfect, like the sun, in bringing all things to life and nourishing all that is truly human.”

Source : John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.1, Shambhala Publications
“I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident”
“Early Apple machines -- don't know how to answer what it was like since there were so few tools. Just had to keep debugging by isolating a problem, looking at memory in the limited debugging (weaker than the DOS DEBUG and no symbols) patch and retry and then re-program, download and try again. And again...”
“The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.”

Source : "Remembering the enduring legacy of Lady Diana: the People’s Princess" by Natasha Koifman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2017.
“Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.”

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