Belfries Quotes

#1. The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous. Tell an English cottager that the belfries of Swedish churches are crimson, and his own white steeple furnishes him with a contradiction.

Robert Aris Willmott

#2. You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc. of serum, or administering a year's dose of vitamins.

Gilbert Highet

#3. You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing.

Roger Kahn

#4. Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.

Lev Grossman

#5. They think they're better than everyone else."
"No," said Jace. "I think I'm better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence."
Kyle looked at Simon. "Does he always talk like this?"
"Yes.

Cassandra Clare

#6. I don't pay a lot of attention to polls.

Noam Chomsky

#7. The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.

Pablo Casals

#8. The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both

Milton Friedman

#9. You nearly froze to death out there, you haven't been fed since the fall of Rome, and I'm evil.

Seanan McGuire

#10. I believe people who shower twice a day are hiding a secret, or a sandwich.

Chelsea Handler