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- Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
- Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966)
- There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
- Robert Henri (1865 - 1929)
- All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
- Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
- Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.
- Charles Buxton
- A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
- Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
- We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
- Frederick William Robertson
- An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
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