"The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work"

-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#Teaching Quotes #Hard Work Quotes #Learning Quotes

“Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.”
“A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly problems. It is almost equally true that a clear and full apprehension of the universal providence of God is the solution of most theological problems.”
“The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter would have proved a poor guide in the development of science, which often makes progress by its encounter with the totally unexpected and initially extremely puzzling.”
“Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story”
“And you cycle throughout so that you do about five to six cycles throughout the night. And we spend more time in REM later on in the night than we do earlier on.”
“Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see.”

Source : Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation”, p.126, Broadway Books
“When a legislature decides to steal some of our rights and plans to use police force to accomplish it, what's the real difference between them and the thief? Darn little! They hide behind the excuse that they're legislating democratically. The fact they do it by a majority vote has no moral significance whatsoever. Numerical might does not constitute right, no more than a lynch mob can justify its act because a majority participated.”
“Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them. We must live by the love of what we will never see.”

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