"Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire."

-- Anatole France

#Teaching Quotes #Fire Quotes #Vanity Quotes

“Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.”
“Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!”
“People of good character are not all going to come down on the same side of difficult political and social issues. Good people-people of character and moral literacy-can be conservative, and good people can be liberal. We must not permit our disputes over thorny political questions to obscure the obligation we have to offer instruction to all our young people in the area in which we have, as a society, reached a consensus: namely, on the importance of good character, and some of its pervasive particulars.”

Source : "The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories". Book edited by William Bennett, 1993.
“There is no perfect spaghetti sauce. There are perfect spaghetti sauces.”
“I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.”
“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”
“Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.”

Source : Jonathan Kellerman (2003). “The Web: An Alex Delaware Novel”, p.105, Ballantine Books
“"It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees."”

Source : "The Reader's Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary", Special Supplement (p. 2047), 1966.

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