“I learned from my own teachers, a long time ago in another universe, the quality of quiet fortitude that is renewed by a person's love of light.” PersonsLongLightUniverseMy OwnQualityTeacherBuddhismBalanceQuietLong TimeFortitudeLong Time Ago Author:Frederick Lenz
“I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.” BookCoursesWalksTeacherQuietScholarSolitaryRamaMeditatingAloofQuiet LifeWalks In Nature Author:Frederick Lenz
“I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers.” BookKidsSchoolReadingHoursClassTeacherQuietCornersReading BooksForbiddenElementary SchoolSchool Hours Author:Cassandra Clare
“I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no drums; but where they are men learn that bustle and push are not the equals of quiet genius and serene mastery.” KnowsMenLittlesPowerfulTeacherTalentGeniusQuietBeatsArmyMasterySereneSpecialistsBannerPersuasiveBustle Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.” LooksAgeClassTeacherWifeSonQuietMy WifeSillyScreamPlaygroundsBeing Silly Author:Mark Hoppus
“For those of us who got into good colleges or the professions, did we stand up to that high school history teacher who told us some ridiculous lie about American history and say, "That's a ridiculous lie. You're an idiot"? No. We said, "All right, I'll keep quiet, and I'll write it in the exam and I'll think, yes, he's an idiot." And it's easy to say and believe things that improve your self-image and your career and that are in other ways beneficial to yourselves.” ThinkingWayWritingBelieveSaidSelfSchoolLyingEasyCareersTeacherCollegeQuietHigh SchoolProfessionRidiculousIdiotAmerican HistoryBeneficialExamHistory TeacherGood CollegeSchool History Author:Noam Chomsky
“Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school.” ThinkingHas BeensSaidWholeSchoolThreeTeacherQuietGraduatesGraduate SchoolThree Words Author:Marilynne Robinson
“Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.” GivingHappinessVirtueTeacherTeachingQuietConscienceEsteemHonour Book:The Papers of Thomas Jefferson Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
“No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.” IfsKnowsMenWantYearsPersonsLongNamesWalksTeachTeacherQuietTravelHundredMirrorsWho You AreMedicineBraveGlassesMilesBitterAbout YourselfGreat Teacher Author:Patrick Rothfuss