Best function & teach Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.”

Firsts May Reason Happens Moving Literature Speak Understanding Pleasure Teach Higher Function Mere Affection Sail Oar Rudders

Book:Leaders in literature

Source: Leaders in literature

“The trade of chemist (fortified, in my case, by the experience of Auschwitz), teaches you to overcome, indeed to ignore, certain revulsions that are neither necessary or congenital: matter is matter, neither noble nor vile, infinitely transformable, and its proximate origin is of no importance whatsoever. Nitrogen is nitrogen, it passes miraculously from the air into plants, from these into animals, and from animals into us; when its function in our body is exhausted, we eliminate it, but it still remains nitrogen, aseptic, innocent.”

Stills Matter Body Certain Animal Teach Cases Air Overcoming Function Importance Remains Trade Plant Noble Innocent Exhausted Chemist Auschwitz Revulsion Nitrogen

Book:The periodic table

Source: The periodic table

“In Matthew 16:19, Jesus said that He would give us the keys to the Kingdom. Faith is the major key that opens every door in the Kingdom. It is a master key. Therefore it is imperative that we understand the ways of faith. Because these keys are the ways of God the natural man cannot receive them. They are spiritually understood. They are foolishness to the natural man. When a gift of the Spirit operates. Then we are able to impart that gift to others and teach them how to function in it also.”

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Author:Phil Pringle

“To me personally the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average businessman does, for no businessman who does not retire at fifty, if he can, is in my eyes a philosopher.”

Ifs Doe Philosophy Eye Teach Function Average Philosopher Fifty Retiring Businessman

Book:The Importance of Living

Source: The Importance of Living

“When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.”

Believe Has Beens Said Difficult Teach Function Temptation

Book:The Peasant of the Garonne: An Old Layman Questions Himself about the Present Time

Source: The Peasant of the Garonne: An Old Layman Questions Himself about the Present Time

“In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representative who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions.”

“There's generally no good reason why others should care about most of any one artist's work. The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your artwork that soars.”

Should Reason Care Artist Teach Function Majority Reason Why Overwhelming Soar Fractions Artwork

Book:Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

Source: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

“Is it any wonder that Socrates was outraged at the accusation he took money to teach? Even then, philosophers saw clearly the inevitable direction the professionalization of teaching would take, that of pre-empting the teaching function, which, in a healthy community, belongs to everyone.”

Community Wonder Teach Saws Teaching Healthy Function Philosopher Inevitable Accusation Outraged

Book:Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“The function of the church for both young and old is not to give us on Sundays certain kinds of experiences different from experiences of the every day. The function of the church is rather to teach us how to put religious and ethical qualities into all kinds of experiences.”

Giving Kind Different Young Certain Church Religious Quality Teach Function All Kinds Sunday Ethical Young And Old

Author:Sophia Lyon Fahs

“There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach; the function of the second is -- to move.”

Firsts Moving Literature Teach Function

Book:Leaders in literature

Source: Leaders in literature

“The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.”

Men Whole Education Teach Function Occupation

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“It is not permitted for a woman to speak in the church, nor is it permitted for her to teach, nor to baptize, nor to offer [the eucharist], nor to claim for herself a share in any masculine function- not to mention any priestly office.”

Speak Church Teach Share Offers Office Function Claims Masculine Eucharist

Author:Tertullian

“Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach.”

Teach Teaching Offers Function Profession

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“Part of what we have to do a better job of, if our democracy is to function in a complicated diverse society like this, is to teach our kids enough critical thinking to be able to sort out what is true and what is false, what is contestable and what is incontestable. And we seem to have trouble with that. And our political system doesn't help.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.”

Nature Teach Intellectual Garden Cat Function Intelligence Kitten Cat And Dog Funny Cat Cat Dog Cat Love Inspirational Cat Cute Cat Kitty Cat Rescue Cats Lake Wobegon

Author:Garrison Keillor

“What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that's my function, but from time to time it's possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.”

Feels I Can Helping Literature Teach Criticism Function Strikes Literary Criticism Comparative Literature

Author:Wole Soyinka

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”

Source: The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr

“How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn't they paralyze us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this morning? Is it something we all hide from each other, by mutual consent? Or do we share the same secret without knowing it? Wear the same disguise?”

Source: White Noise: Text and Criticism

“The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.”

Thinking Men May Reason Moral Teach Dangerous Prove Function Brilliant Criminals Efficiency Gifted Menace True Education Purpose Of Education

Book:The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr

Source: The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr

“The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.”

Source: The Souls of Black Folk

“It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily experience teaches us that, under certain circumstances, they may be dispensed with without disadvantage to the merely animal functions, but it is an error, certainly, to conclude from this that they may be altogether dispensed with in reference to their effects; and It is a question whether, if we had no tea and no coffee, the popular instinct would not seek for and discover the means of replacing them.”

Ifs May Mean Certain Animal Teach Effects Circumstances Function Errors Instinct Coffee Tea Disadvantages Daily Experience

Book:Mrs Beeton's Household Management

Source: Mrs Beeton's Household Management

“While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a therapist has shown me that the demands of intimate life can be just as useful as meditation in moving people toward this capacity. Just as in formal meditation, intimate relationships teach us that the more we relate to each other as objects, the greater our disappointment. The trick, as in meditation, is to use this disappointment to change the way we relate.”

Source: Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught

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