To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch their renewal of life — this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do. —Charles Dudley Warner More about this quote Tags: light farming delight growing agriculture Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I love the story of the rabbi who sent his disciple to learn from a fellow rabbi. When the disciple asked what he should learn, what parts of Torah, the teacher answered: "I am sending you to learn from him — not words of Torah, but how he ties his shoelaces!" It's the details, the small daily things which we learn from our role models, not necessarily book knowledge, which we can glean for our own lives. —Dov Peretz Elkins More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The true definition of science is this: the study of the beauty of the world. —Simone Weil More about this quote Tags: beauty science world study Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there. —Richard Feynman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it. —Bernard Bailey More about this quote Tags: science self-centeredness conceit surprise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. That is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be measured or give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be easily measured really isn't very important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured doesn't exist. This is suicide. —Daniel Yankelovich More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. —Ivan Illich More about this quote Tags: wisdom learning teaching evidence school Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization presumably would flunk it. —Stanley Marion Garn More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this. —E. F. Schumacher More about this quote Tags: work hands brain handmade Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
School was a worry to her. She was not glib or quick in a world where glibness and quickness were easily confused with ability to learn. —Tillie Olsen More about this quote Tags: learning school ability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. —Mother Teresa More about this quote Tags: action leadership waiting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Independence? That's a middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: soul independence earth interdependence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are afraid of religion because it interprets rather than just observes. Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve. —Dorothe Sölle More about this quote Tags: hunger fear religion starving Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He whose belly is full believes not him whose belly is empty. —Thomas Fuller More about this quote Tags: hunger belief fullness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Work went on monotonously, and our constant hunger was wrenching. Rice powder and bran, which I sometimes roasted in an attempt to give it some flavor, had torn my insides to shreds. One morning I didn't have the strength to get up, and no one came to see what had happened to me. Everyone was so used to having people just disappear. —Molyda Szymusiak More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email