Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting 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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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Myself I must remake.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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