Schoolman Quotes & Sayings

For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her. — Charles Caleb Colton

Language may die at the hands of the schoolman: it is regenerated by the poets — Emmanuel Mounier

This is not a contest with your child. The winner is not the one with more points. The winner is the one whose child still loves them when they graduate from high school. — Martin L. Kutscher

The selfie era offers a big opening: everybody can do it; nowadays even five-year-olds know how to take a nude self-portrait. — Lucas Samaras

Sometimes the dues we pay to maintain integrity are pretty high, but the ultimate cost of moral compromise is so much higher. — Michael Josephson

When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman. — Thomas Hobbes

I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison. — Mark Twain

God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven. — George MacDonald

When tended the right way, beauty multiplies. — Shannon Wiersbitzky

The more disciplined you are, the more profitable you become. — Sumit Das

I think people, if you really want to be happy, you have to find God yourself, and you're going to have to have a personal, one-on-one relationship and not look to get through these traditions or these rituals and all this crazy stuff when you could talk to him right here, right now, anytime, anywhere, any place, from any position. And that's the kind of relationship you want, not a standard. — Ice Cube

Tomorrow," Minho added. "Somehow, some way. — James Dashner

If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow — Mike Krzyzewski

Truth is no prostitute, that throws herself away upon those who do not desire her; she is rather so coy a beauty that he who sacrifices everything to her cannot even then be sure of her favour. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Every Harry Potter film features Lord Voldemort, who stereotypes evil. And movies that discriminate against evil have no place on campus, because evil has feelings, too. Terrorists cry during commercials and mad bombers enjoy long walks and campfires, too. — Jedediah Bila

To be the best next-generation leader you can be, you must enlist the help of others. Self-evaluation is helpful, but evaluation from someone else is essential. You need a leadership coach. Coaching enables a leader to go further faster. — Andy Stanley

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart. — Horace Mann

Since moving to New York, she had been gradually abandoning her old ideas about the nobility of suffering. — Tom Robbins