Standardized Minds Quotes & Sayings

I'm pretty fair-skinned, so I need to get in the sun for a little while. — Jon Lester

If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question, it is a good bet that there would be no suicide bombers. Suicide bombers do what they do because they really believe what they were taught in their religious schools: that duty to God exceeds all other priorities, and that martyrdom in his service will be rewarded in the gardens of Paradise. — Richard Dawkins

I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore. — Terry Brooks

I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die. — Meriwether Lewis

Sometimes, the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds. — Diane Ravitch

rap that dishonors God does not ruin all rap. God is redeeming rap. — Curtis "Voice" Allen

If this beautiful life is worth living, it will be more worthy if you are loving. — Debasish Mridha

There is no such thing as a "social gospel." It is a misnomer. There is only one Gospel. "If any man preach any other gospel unto you ...
let him be accursed" [Galatians 1:9 KJV]. — Billy Graham

Most of us know intuitively that a score on a personality test, a rank on a standardized assessment, a grade point average, or a rating on a performance review doesn't reflect your, or your child's, or your students', or your employees' abilities. Yet the concept of average as a yardstick for measuring individuals has been so thoroughly ingrained in our minds that we rarely question it seriously. — Todd Rose

The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds. — Caspar David Friedrich

If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued you'll always fancy yourself to be short of the things you need to the extent to which you lag behind what others have. — Seneca.