Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Quote by William Butler Yeats
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Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
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William Butler Yeats Quotes
- I have spread my dreams under your feet
- Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
- The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
- Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.
- A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
- An intellectual hate is the worst.
- An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.
- Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
- Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
- Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Best Quotes
- Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
- I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
- My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.
- A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
- Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
- War and Peace never stay at a moment.
- But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.
- God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
- For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?