Makiguchi Quotes & Sayings

Age is such a natural progression you shouldn't fight it. — Ann-Margret

True happiness comes only through sharing in the trials and successes of other persons and of our community. Hence it is essential that any true conception of happiness contain the promise of full commitment to the life of the society. — Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

Be kind, be fair and be just. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City. — Paulina Rubio

Cooperative living can develop only as individual persons become able to see their own weaknesses and strengths as well as the weaknesses and strengthen of others. — Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

To not advance is to retreat. — Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

Imagine the story you would most want to read, and then shamelessly write it. — J.D. Salinger

What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it be a copy of verses or a geometrical theorem, is to have done something utterly beyond the powers of the vast majority of men. — G.H. Hardy

Without a terrific leader, you're not going to have a Great Group. But it is also true that you're not going to have a great leader without a Great Group. — Warren G. Bennis

Who naught suspects is easily deceived. — Petrarch

The essence of education is not to transfer knowledge; it is to guide the learning process, to put responsibility for study in the student's own hands ... [and] place people on their own path of discovery and invention. — Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

Because for most of us, suicide is a moment we'll never choose. It's only for people like Lexy, who know they might choose eventually, who believe they have a choice to make. — Carolyn Parkhurst

What then is the purpose of national education? Rather than devise complex theoretical interpretations, it is better to start by looking to the lovely child who sits on your knee and ask yourself: What can I do to assure this child will be able to lead the happiest life possible? — Tsunesaburo Makiguchi