Top 25 John Comenius Quotes

#1. Because the meaning of a story does not lie on its surface, visible and self-defining, does not mean that meaning does not exist. Indeed, the ambiguity of meaning, its inner private quality, may well be part of the writer's vision.

Joyce Carol Oates

#2. 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

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

John Amos Comenius

#4. The easiest way to get into northern Iraq is through Turkey.

Husnu Ozyegin

#5. I would advise dancers, musicians and others in the entertainment industry to take up yoga, as it clears the mind and creates a sense of balance and stillness which is important for any performing artist.

Emmanuel Jal

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

John Amos Comenius

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

John Amos Comenius

#8. Twitter, far from fostering debate and broadening minds, has turned us into a hive of scolds. Angry mobs wait on the sidelines to strike and then bask in the glow of their moral superiority.

Mick Hume

#9. Growth is a stupid goal. So, by the way, is no-growth.

Donella Meadows

#10. Life isn't static, and sometimes, we don't realize the value of knowledge or even of people, until farther down the track, when we're mature enough to truly understand.

Nalini Singh

#11. A person who wants to "know Jesus" must, due to the nature of God's revelation, know Him as He is related to the Father and the Spirit. We must know, understand, and love the Trinity to be fully and completely Christian. This is why we say the Trinity is the greatest of God's revealed truths.

James R. White

#12. Hey look, Yara, there's someone driving the car."
"Ha, ha," Cherie grumbled. "You two haven't come up
for air since we picked Yara up from the airport."
"Circle the block," Brent instructed. "I'm not done
kissing her yet.

Lani Woodland

#13. He wanted to protect her and
fuck her and comfort her and destroy her all at once. The chaos of his emotions coiled around his pain,
deepening the agony.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#14. I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

Robert Frost

#15. The written word might as well have been my veins, and ink my blood.

Ronnell D. Porter

#16. Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent.

Christopher Marlowe

#17. 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

#18. Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

John Philip Sousa

#19. 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

#20. To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

Walter Lippmann

#21. 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

#22. What could I do? I was afraid he'd point at me and say 'Him!,' and then lightning bolts would hit me or something
-Chong

Jonathan Maberry

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

John Amos Comenius

#24. 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

#25. The school is the manufactory of humanity.

John Amos Comenius

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