Analogies Quote by Plutarch

“The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.”

— Plutarch

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— Pat Frayne

“The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs kindling.”

— Plutarch

The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike…

— Gerald Edelman

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse…

— Plutarch

O marvelous Sacrament! How can I find words to praise you! You are the life of the soul, the medicament healing our wounds, our…

— Louis of Granada

Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains with their right aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts,…

— Washington Irving

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel

— Socrates

We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an…

— D. H. Lawrence

If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men…

— John Godfrey Saxe

Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.

— Edmund Spenser

And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love…

— Gerald Massey