Education Quote by Frances Burney Download Open image ““Why he's a poet, you know, so he may live upon learning.”” — Frances Burney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Learning Poetry
“To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“A poet writes what they see every day, what they know, what they’ve lived or barely lived through.” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
“Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it.” — BORGES JORGE LUIS Copy Share Image
“Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education.… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“What arguments, what persuasions can I make use of, with any prospect of success, to such a woman as Madame Duval? ...She is too… — Frances Burney Copy Share Image
“Mortimer Delvile was tall and finely formed, his features, though not handsome, were full of expression, and a noble openness of manners and address… — Frances Burney Copy Share Image
“O! I must tell you that I have fallen in love with a gentleman whom I have lately come acquainted with: he is about… — Frances Burney Copy Share Image
“it is sometimes dangerous to make requests to men, who are too desirous of receiving them.” — Frances Burney Copy Share Image
“Another gentleman ... desired to know if I was engaged, or would honour him with my hand [to dance]. So he was pleased to… — Frances Burney Copy Share Image
“To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, surely, must be more beneficial to mankind.” — Frances Burney Copy Share Image
“Lord Orville seemed by no means to think the Captain worthy an argument, upon a subject concerning which he had neither knowledge nor feeling.” — Frances Burney Copy Share Image
“In all ranks and all stations of life, how strangely characters and manners differ!” — Frances Burney Copy Share Image
“The world...is too full of real evil for me at least, to cause one moment of unnecessary uneasiness to any of its poor pilgrims.… — Frances Burney Copy Share Image
“The civility of young Branghton, I much suspect, was merely the result of his father's commands” — Frances Burney Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
