Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. —William Butler Yeats More about this quote Tags: education passion fire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from William Butler Yeats Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. —William Butler Yeats More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met. —William Butler Yeats More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. —William Butler Yeats More about this quote Tags: communication Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. —William Butler Yeats More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses. —William Butler Yeats More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. —William Butler Yeats More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met. —William Butler Yeats More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. —William Butler Yeats More about this quote Tags: communication Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. —William Butler Yeats More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses. —William Butler Yeats More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “fire” Since the house is on fire, let us warm ourselves. —Italian proverb More about this quote Tags: optimism fire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email In 1941 Sergeant James Allen Ward was awarded the Victoria Cross for climbing out onto the wing of his Wellington bomber at thirteen thousand feet to extinguish a fire in the starboard engine. Secured only by a rope around his waist, he smothered the fire and returned along the wing to the aircraft's cabin. Winston Churchill, an admirer of swashbuckling exploits, summoned the shy New Zealander to 10 Downing Street. Struck dumb with awe in Churchill's presence, Ward was unable to answer the prime minister's questions. Churchill surveyed the unhappy hero with some compassion. "You must feel very humble and awkward in my presence," he said. "Yes, sir," managed Ward. "Then you can imagine how humble and awkward I feel in yours," said Churchill. —The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: war heroism humility compassion fire awe awkwardness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email We take other men's knowledge and opinions upon trust; which is an idle and superficial learning. We must make them our own. We are just like a man who, needing fire, went to a neighbor's house to fetch it, and finding a very good one there, sat down to warm himself without remembering to carry any back home. What good does it do us to have our belly full of meat if it is not digested, if it is not transformed into us, if it does not nourish and support us? —Michel de Montaigne More about this quote Tags: learning knowledge curiosity trust fire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Love in its essence is spiritual fire. —Lucius Annaeus Seneca More about this quote Tags: love relationships fire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice. —Dorothy Thompson More about this quote Tags: fire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Since the house is on fire, let us warm ourselves. —Italian proverb More about this quote Tags: optimism fire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In 1941 Sergeant James Allen Ward was awarded the Victoria Cross for climbing out onto the wing of his Wellington bomber at thirteen thousand feet to extinguish a fire in the starboard engine. Secured only by a rope around his waist, he smothered the fire and returned along the wing to the aircraft's cabin. Winston Churchill, an admirer of swashbuckling exploits, summoned the shy New Zealander to 10 Downing Street. Struck dumb with awe in Churchill's presence, Ward was unable to answer the prime minister's questions. Churchill surveyed the unhappy hero with some compassion. "You must feel very humble and awkward in my presence," he said. "Yes, sir," managed Ward. "Then you can imagine how humble and awkward I feel in yours," said Churchill. —The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: war heroism humility compassion fire awe awkwardness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We take other men's knowledge and opinions upon trust; which is an idle and superficial learning. We must make them our own. We are just like a man who, needing fire, went to a neighbor's house to fetch it, and finding a very good one there, sat down to warm himself without remembering to carry any back home. What good does it do us to have our belly full of meat if it is not digested, if it is not transformed into us, if it does not nourish and support us? —Michel de Montaigne More about this quote Tags: learning knowledge curiosity trust fire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love in its essence is spiritual fire. —Lucius Annaeus Seneca More about this quote Tags: love relationships fire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice. —Dorothy Thompson More about this quote Tags: fire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email