Browsing Quotes With Tag: education (128)
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Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.
Speaker: John RayPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:49 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out.
Speaker: Virginia HutchinsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nurture your mind with great thoughts: to believe in heroes makes heroes.
Speaker: Benjamin DisraeliPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, have at times no connection.
Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men: wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that she has learned so much. Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.
Speaker: Tyron EdwardsPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The Lord can only teach an inquiring mind.
Speaker: Russell M. NelsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I need to find out what I believe about a subject before I can be at peace with that subject. That means that I can’t teach it until I know it, and I can’t give my opinion about it until I know what my opinion is. And even more important, I can’t live it until I know what it is.
…You won’t know what you believe until you can get it down to 3-5 concepts.Speaker: President HansonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:36 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself, and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it.
Speaker: John TaylorPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is a smart person, young or old, who will accept advice and counsel from experienced people who know the pitfalls, the crumbling walls, and the cracking dams which bring on destruction.
Speaker: Spencer W. KimballPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you don’t have love, you will not teach.
Speaker: President HansonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is so much difference between teaching the missionaries what they are to do as concentrating on what they are to be. The first will make a salesman of them. The second will create a saint.
Speaker: Boyd K. PackerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Broad complexity, but shallow; this is the way of man.
Speaker: President MarvinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:39 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Learn to love. Without charity, learning is hypocrisy.
Speaker: Kyle AndersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:36 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The mantle of leadership is not the cloak of comfort, but the role of responsibility… ‘Youth need fewer critics and more models [to follow].’ One hundred years from now it will not matter what kind of car we drove, what kind of a house we lived in, how much we had in the bank account, nor what our clothes looked like. But the world may be a little better because we were important in the life of a boy or girl.
Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:45 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the Gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior.
Speaker: Boyd K. PackerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The influence of righteous, conscientious, persistent, daily mothering is far more lasting, far more powerful, far more influential than any earthly position or institution invented by man.
Speaker: Julie B. BeckPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Do not let your children out to specialists…, but teach them by your own precept and example, by your own fireside. Be a specialist yourself in the truth.
Speaker: Joseph F. SmithPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I believe our problems, almost every one, arise out of the homes of the people. If there is to be reformation, if there is to be a change, if there is to be a return to the old and sacred values, it must begin in the home.
It is here that truth is learned, that integrity is cultivated, that self-discipline is instilled, and that love is nurtured.Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
People will come to know the truth to the degree that they are true to the truth.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
[Doing] assists the education of the conscience and reinforces its knowledge in ways that no amount of church attending or studying can. Doing actually changes the fiber of a person’s nature – his soul, his conscience, his character. Doing changes his view of himself. A person’s behavior is largely a product of such self-made fuel.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!