Fire Quote by Plutarch

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

— Plutarch

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

— Plutarch

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

— Pat Frayne

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

My plan is to open five restaurants based on the five elements in Chinese philosophy: wood, water, fire, earth and metal.

— Arthur Potts Dawson

You watched and you saw what happened and in the accumulation of episodes you saw the pattern: Daddy ruled the roost, called the shots,…

— Anne Taylor Fleming

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

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

— Edmund Spenser

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

This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and…

— Heraclitus