Yeats Education Quotes & Sayings

We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences more visibly and obviously, and in all likelihood more easily and fully than we do, for our life in cities, which deafens or kills the passive meditative life, and our education that enlarges the separated, self-moving mind, have made our souls less sensitive. — W.B.Yeats

Magic is magic except to the magician. — Don Bradley

Education is not filling — William Butler Yeats

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - W. B. Yeats — Daniel Coyle

I'm very honest and I know where I am. If you look at the table and the games we have got left to win, we need a miracle. — Gus Poyet

Wherever there's Nature, there's assholes," he — Margaret Atwood

As Sommerfeld said in his famous text "Spectral Lines and Atomic Constitution," on which a generation of physicists learned the subject, "In the fine structure constant e is the representative of the electron theory, h the appropriate representative of the quantum theory, c comes from relativity and characterizes it in contrast to classical theory. — Emilio Segre

It's difficult to explain, but I just somehow feel that I never really *have* lived; that I never really will live
exist or whatever
in the sense that other people do. It drives me crazy. I was terribly aware of it all those nights waiting for you in the Ritz bar looking around at what seemed to be real grown-up lives. I just find everybody else's life surrounded by plate glass. I mean I'd like to break through it just once and actually touch one. — Elaine Dundy

I want to crush my cigarette on his eyelid. I would rather he keep fucking me for the rest of the night than lie here staring at me tracing my ribs with his fingertips, acting like what happened meant something. — Amy Reed

The second kind are invited by bad character, and the problems such a person has then cannot be put right until he puts himself right. It is not something a proud man can do, because proud men see no wrongness in themselves. — John C. Wright

Why were we fighting if you had that kind of power?"
In unison, every ex-Dark-Hunter and Nick said, "Just because you can doesn't
mean you should."
"And sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right," Wulf said. When
the other guys looked confused by his solo outburst, he added, "I guess
I'm the only one he ever said that one to. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

A woman would have to be crazy to marry, or even have sex with, a man who would prosecute every lover's quarrel like a criminal case — Francine Prose

Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire. — William Butler Yeats