Happart Voeren Quotes & Sayings

The test of education, apart from the accomplishments that secure places in an artificial system, should be this: Let the man be thrown naked on an unknown shore, and be forced to win his way amidst a new people. It may then be of little use to play cricket or to mishandle Tschaikowsky on a piano, but good physique, intelligence, and will power make their way infallibly. — Arthur Lynch

What does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face instead with - no future at all? — Graham Swift

I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things. — John Adams

When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements. — John Milton

Meet hatred with hatred and you degrade yourself. Meet hatred with love and you not only elevate yourself but also the person who bears you hatred. — Ralph Waldo Trine

Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on. — Irvine Welsh