T. S. Eliot on education
T. S. Eliot77 quotes“No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.”
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Teach us to care and not to care
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot I can connect Nothing with nothing
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot For you know only a heap of broken images
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot This love is silent.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot
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