Amos Comenius Quotes

#1. For more than a hundred years much complaint has been made of the unmethodical way in which schools are conducted, but it is only within the last thirty that any serious attempt has been made to find a remedy for this state of things. And with what result? Schools remain exactly as they were.

John Amos Comenius

#2. If a fool keeps his mouth shut, there will be no difference of opinion.

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

#3. The school is the manufactory of humanity.

John Amos Comenius

#4. Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

Jack Kerouac

#5. Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

John Amos Comenius

#6. Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world.

Albert Camus

#7. Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.

John Amos Comenius

#8. Patience is emotional diligence.

Stephen Covey

#9. The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#10. Dreams are reality at its most profound.

Eugene Ionesco

#11. Let the main object ... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

John Amos Comenius

#12. I get all fired up about aging in America.

Willard Scott

#13. Excite the mind, and the hand will reach for the pocket.

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#14. Truth. It can make me hate the person speaking it. Until the point at which I want to kiss them for setting me free.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#15. Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school

John Amos Comenius

#16. The saying "He who teaches others, teaches himself" is very true, not only because constant repetition impresses a fact indelibly on the mind, but because the process of teaching itself gives deeper insight into the subject taught.

John Amos Comenius

#17. Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.

John Amos Comenius

#18. Much can be learned in play that will afterwards be of use when the circumstances demand it.

John Amos Comenius

#19. Preserve there [bohemia] a hidden seed to glorify thy name.

John Amos Comenius