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- 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)
- The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
- 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)
- The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
- Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983)
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