Atrophied Quotes
15 quotes by 13 authors
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups.…
— Bertrand Russell
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have…
— Charles Darwin
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Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.
— Keith Johnstone
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Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers,…
— James Agee
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Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.…
— Keith Johnstone
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Love is the air that I breathe, like oxygen. When I lack it, I feel atrophied, asphyxiated. When I have it, I feel I am…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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When my sons arrived in the family, their legal status was not ambiguous at all. They were our kids. But their wants and affections were…
— Russell D. Moore
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I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.
— Clarke Peters
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Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those…
— Claude Vorilhon
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My court skills may have atrophied.
— David E. Kelley
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The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it takes…
— Junot Diaz
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That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that…
— Bertrand Russell
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All that we "know" is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughts—as Sir…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake.…
— Chuck Palahniuk
Who Wrote These Atrophied Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 15 Atrophied Quotes as follows: