"If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on praise
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"We become moral when we are unhappy."

Proust, Marcel on morality
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"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit."

Shaffer, Robert H. on teacher
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"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

King Jr. Martin Luther on love
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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"Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish."

Colton, Charles Caleb on silence
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"Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire."

Yeats, William Butler on motivation
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"We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists."

Lippmann, Walter on belief
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"All war represents a failure of diplomacy."

Benn, Tony on war
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"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds."

Thoreau, Henry David on eccentricity
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"False friends are worse than bitter enemies."

Proverb, Scottish on enemies
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"Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners."

Chesterfield, Lord on laughter   

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"There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work."

Niro, Robert De on discipline
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"I have just about all I can take of myself."

Behrman, S. on self-respect
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"He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages."

Twain, Mark on futility
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"Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent."

Churchill, Winston on character
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