"When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching."

-- George Polya

#Teaching Quotes #Enemy Quotes #May Quotes

“It takes courage to care for others, because people who care run the risk of being hurt. It's not easy to let your guard down, open your heart, react with sympathy or compassion or indignation or enthusiasm when usually it's much easier-and sometimes much safer-not to get involved. People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you are.”
“In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.”
“Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.”
“It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.”
“Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.”

Source : "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IX, 5, 6,
“I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.”

Source : Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.15, Library of Alexandria
“We don't get groupies.We get teenagers who want to read us their poetry.”
“When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.”

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