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Parker J. Palmer has 73 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of…
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How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth…
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In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.
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Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.
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I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear…
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Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness.
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Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.
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In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power…
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Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving…
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Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already…
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We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands…
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Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if…
— P T Barnum
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That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of…
— Danny Boyle
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Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
— George W. Bush
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I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to…
— Richard Carmona
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Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital…
— Mahnaz Afkhami
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Congratulations is the civility of envy.
— Ambrose Bierce
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God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the…
— Francis Bacon
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A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the…
— Thomas Adams
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
— Samuel Johnson
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There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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