Beclouding Quotes

#1. There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

Confucius

#2. ...progress of civilization has brought along with it much beclouding of realities and grave danger. Apparent economies may easily deceive us. But technical progress should never be the goal, only the means.

Tenny Pinheiro

#3. And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement. They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer.

Khalil Gibran

#4. I always thought I was commercial. I always thought I was writing hit singles. These days, whatever's on the radio is considered commercial. People like what's on the radio, whatever it is.

Tom Verlaine

#5. That's the Irish People all over - they treat a serious thing as a joke and a joke as a serious thing.

Sean O'Casey

#6. I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.

Margaret Spellings

#7. It is fast becoming an article of political faith that financing America's public schools by way of the local property tax is a shame and a civic scandal.

M. Stanton Evans

#8. About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.

Edna Ferber

#9. But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Falling is not important. It is how we get up after the fall that's important.

Rick Yancey

#10. Roe'vaash was done... He was tired hungry, cold and very relieved that he had never cut off his elven ears. Today was a new day to start again. ~quote from Then'diel's SONG 2014

K. Farrell St. Germain

#11. The more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

Leo Tolstoy

#12. The more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing too much, but of praying too little for so much work.

Alexander MacLaren

#13. Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

Orrin Woodward

#14. Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.

Ban Ki-moon

#15. Shall I make it clear, boys, for all to apprehend, Those that will not hear, boys, waiting for the end, Knowing it is near, boys, trying to pretend, Sitting in cold fear, boys, waiting for the end?

William Empson

#16. I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me.

Tom Stoppard

#17. Tyrion shrugged. We all need to be mocked from time to time Lord Mormont lest we start to take ourselves too seriously.

George R R Martin

#18. Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.

Katherine Anne Porter