Nature has frequently planted astonishing genius in men of monstrously ugly appearance.
~Giovanni Boccacio
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Tag: quotes
Quotes – Life As Strategy
For life is a series of acts of choice, and each choice is at the same time a renunciation.
~Alexander Gray
Quotes – Cultivating Cooperation In A Toddler
If you’ve told a child a thousand times, and the child still has not learned, then it is not the child who is the slow learner.
~Walter B. Barbe
Quotes – Education Starts With The Self
The real preparation to education is the study of one’s self. The training of the teacher is something far more than learning ideas. It includes the training of character. It is a preparation of the spirit.
~Maria Montessori
Quotes – Attitude and Opportunity
Only in America could you find a way to earn a healthy buck; And still keep your attitude on self-destruct.
~MF DOOM
Quotes – A Well-Ordered World
The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the Kingdom, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order well their states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.
Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their states were rightly governed. Their states being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.
From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.
~Confucius
Quotes – Busyness vs. Productivity
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
~Socrates
