"The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power."

--

Charles William Eliot

#Education Quotes #Desire Quotes #Fruit Quotes

“If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.”
“God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us.”

Source : Thomas Keating (1997). “Active Meditations for Contemplative Prayer”, p.52, A&C Black
“If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood â€“ then Iâ€™m satisfied.”
“Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.”

Source : Alfred Austin, “A Woman’s Apology”
“Remember that you are a teacher, you are helping people, making them feel safer, taking them from fear to love, from ignorance to knowledge.”
“There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.”
“I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor.”

Source : "Slackers". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com. February 1, 2002.
“Today's game is always different from yesterday's game.”

Source : Red Smith (1983). “The Red Smith reader”, Vintage

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