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“O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts In stupid folks, and teaches unknown arts. What tongue hangs fire when quickened by the bowl? What wretch so poor but wine expands his soul?”

Art Soul Facts Turns Poor Secret Teach Fire Stupid Drink Wine Folks Boxes Burden Tongue Coward Bowls

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

“Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.”

Should Teach Stupid

Book:My Mortal Enemy

Source: My Mortal Enemy

“I had my yob periods. Nothing violent but certainly loutish. I think it's frustrated intelligence. Imagine that if you were really intelligent and everyone treated you as though you were stupid and no one tried to teach you anything -- the sort of deep subliminal rage that would get going in you. But then once it gets going, you make a strength out of what you know is your weakness, which is that you are undeveloped.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Teach Imagine Stupid Periods Weakness Intelligent Rage Violent Treated Imagine That Frustrated Subliminal

Author:Martin Amis

“There is still in many schools complete misapprehension that children with reading difficulties are stupid. It is so easy to teach a child that they're dumb. There needs to be a recognition that you need different ways to teach children who have got reading problems.”

Way Needs Children Stills Different Problem School Reading Easy Teach Stupid Difficulty Recognition Dumb Different Ways

Author:Jackie French

“Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.”

Thinking Want Believe Children Responsibility Teach Failing Teaching Stupid Succeed Not Stupid

Author:Al Green

“I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?”

Change Teach Stupid Mirrors West East Hey Westerners

Author:Matthew Fox

“The typical American voter is so stupid, his dog teaches him tricks.”

Teach Dog Stupid Tricks Voters Typical American Voters

Author:Jonathan Gruber

“They are not asking you in there for them to learn, contrary to what they're saying. That's not what leftists do. They're not asking you to come in and teach them anything. They want to browbeat you. They want to find out why you're so stupid. They want to find out what you're missing. They want to find out why their brilliance is not reaching and connecting to you. They don't think there's anything wrong with them. What's wrong is their reader base, and they want to figure out what's wrong with you.”

Thinking Teach Missing Stupid Brilliance

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”

Wisdom Science Understanding Education Teach Wise Stupid Intelligence Educational Foolish Disguise Education And Teachers Quality Education Lack Of Understanding Lack Of Education

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar.”

Ifs Looks Heart Doe Cities Teach Stupid Sweet Weak Cures Lazy Gates Storyteller Soar Twists Infirmity East Of Eden

Book:East of Eden, And, The Wayward Bus

Source: East of Eden, And, The Wayward Bus