Rawsthorne Practical Cats Quotes & Sayings

You can discover a person's true character by examining how their actions align with their words. — Janice Anderson

The master always keeps a piece of learning
that is to say, a piece of the student's ignorance
up his sleeve. I understood that, says the satisfied student. You think so, corrects the master. in fact, there's a difficulty here that I've been sparing you until now. We will explain it when we get to the corresponding lesson. What does this mean? asks the curious student. I could tell you, responds the master, but it would be premature: you wouldn't understand at all. It will be explained to you next year. The master is always a length ahead of the student, who always feels that in order to go farther he must have another master, supplementary explications. Thus does the triumphant Achilles drag Hector's corpse, attached to his chariot, around the city of Troy. — Jacques Ranciere

When corporations are given the ring of Gyges, we can expect catastrophic results (for the ecosystem, the banking system, public health, etc.). — Jonathan Haidt

When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain. — Dale Carnegie

Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error. — Luc De Clapiers

It's all right if you grow your wings on the way down. — Robert Bly

You have to train your mind and your ears, but they're more like athletic skills. So, part of music you just have to learn those things or you can't practice the art. — Tod Machover

When I was around eleven or twelve, my board got hung up on the top of a bowl, and I got a concussion, and I knocked my teeth out. That was the first time that I got seriously injured, and I was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, and my parents briefly doubted. — Tony Hawk

She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling. — Miranda July

It is the gifted, unorthodox individual, in the laboratory, or the study, or the walk by the river at twilight, who has always brought to us, and must continue to bring to us, all the basic resources by which we live. — Caryl Parker Haskins

Silence is the fence around wisdom — Rabbi Akiva

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate. — John Sladek

You see," she said, "your first love isn't the first person you give your heart to - it's the first one who breaks it. — Lang Leav