Colleges Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll Download Open image “Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.” — Robert Green Ingersoll ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Colleges Colleges Places Diamonds Dimmed Education Pebbles Pebbles Polished Polished Polished Diamonds
Diamonds don't fall for pebbles even if its hard to find and expensive to earn... realize diamond in you. How you expect mere pebbles… — Manna Chisim Sangma Copy Share Image
Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“When a rock transforms into a diamond, lesser stones will not speak of its beauty, but speak of its unpolishedness.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
“College = A place where you spend a ton of money for a piece of paper that says you're qualified.” — Korey Miracle Copy Share Image
A college which does not confer the knowledge of the Spiritual Reality to the students who are engaged in the pursuit of various material… — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig it out… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed to Jews.… — Jerry Robinson Copy Share Image
Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the… — Thomas Perez Copy Share Image
I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top… — Lakshmi Mittal Copy Share Image
Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Colleges must do their part to keep costs down, and its our job to make sure they do. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Young adults enrolled in universities and colleges or other postsecondary training should avail themselves of the opportunity to take institute of religion courses or,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
We are looking for targets that have a tremendous strategic fit for the company. The colleges must have complementary education programs, have an excellent… — John Larson Copy Share Image
By making all my materials freely available through 'Giving 2.0' ProjectU, I am on a mission to extend philanthropy education to colleges globally and… — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Copy Share Image
