Q.Quotes

1 .For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world – John Winthrop, discourse written on board the Arabella, 1630, as Pilgrim Fathers approached America, (1588-1649)

2. What will God say to us, if some of us go to him without the others? – Charles Peguy , quoted in W.Neil, Concise Dictionary of religious Quotations, (1873-1914)

3. When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God-none of the servants. In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in this world – Henry David Thorea (1817-1862) Letter to Harrison Blake, 27 March 1848

4. I think it would be a good idea – Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) when asked by an interviewer what he thought of Western Civilization

5. The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders – Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)

6. Death said: ‘The good is one thing, the pleasant the other: these two, have different objects, chain a man. It is well with him who clings to the good; he who chooses the pleasant misses his end.’ Upanishads (7 cent B.C) Katha Upanshid

7. I cannot help it;-in spite of myself, infinity torments me - Alfred De Musset (1810-1857)

8. Learn to think imperially – Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) British Colony secretary. Speech Guildhall, London, 19 January 1904

9. In the coming world, they will not ask me: “Why are you not Moses?” They will ask me: “Why were you not Zusya?” Zusya (?-1800) Before his death. In Martin Buber “Zusya of Hanipol,” tales of the Hasidim: The Early Masters, tr. Olga Marx, 1947

10. The secret of success in [education] is pace, and the secret of pace is concentration. But, in respect to precise knowledge, the watch-word is pace, pace, pace. Get your knowledge quickly, and then use it. If you can use it, you will retain it. – Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), The Aims of education and other essays, 3, 1929.

11. There is always room at the top – Daniel Webster (1782-1852) When advised not to become a lawyer, since the profession was overcrowded

12. Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough – Gustave Flaubert

13.It’s a damn poor mind that you can think of only one way to spell a word- Andrew Johnson

14. Education cannot be for students in any authentic way, if it is not of and by them – William H. Schubert (1944-) John Dewey Society president. “The Activist Library: A Symposium”, Nation 21 September 1992

15. The sum total of excellence is good sense and method. When these have passed into the instinctive readiness of habit, when the wheel revolves so rapidly that we cannot see it revolve at all, then we call the combination genius. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1722-1834). In Lord Acton, appendix (70) to essays on Freedom and Power, ed. Gertrude Himmerlfarb. 1949

16. Imagination is a very high sort of seeing – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) . “The Poet”, Essays: Second Series , 1844