586 Followers 497 FollowingThe whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
583 Followers 762 FollowingIf you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
597 Followers 574 FollowingWhereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.
604 Followers 617 FollowingSin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.
601 Followers 796 FollowingOnly when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude.
659 Followers 868 FollowingВеликая любовь неразлучна с глубоким умом; широта ума равняется глубине сердца. Оттого крайних вершин гуманности достигают великие сердца, они же великие умы.
597 Followers 575 FollowingThere's a moment coming. It's not here yet. It's still on the way. It's in the future. It hasn't arrived. Here it comes. Here it is It's gone.
602 Followers 713 FollowingA hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something.
595 Followers 761 FollowingEric Draven Little things use to mean so much to Shelley - I thought they were kind of trivial. Believe me, nothing is trivial.
592 Followers 778 FollowingFootfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.
584 Followers 766 FollowingYou have to hang in there, because two or three years later, the gremlins will return your child, and he will be wonderful again.
565 Followers 495 FollowingHis priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.