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Us Quotes by Maria Montessori
- Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.
- The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child.
- Today, however, those things which occupy us in the field of education are the interests of humanity at large and of civilization, and before such…
- Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.
- No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene,…
- When the child goes out, it is the world itself that offers itself to him. Let us take the child out to show him real…
- This is the treasure we need today - helping the child become independent of us and make his way by himself, receiving in return his…
- Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.
- The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then…
- The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives…
- Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong