Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSPeople who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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