Robert C Maynard Quotes

#1. To put an end to the spirit of inquiry that has characterized the West it is not necessary to burn the books. All we have to do is to leave them unread for a few generations.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

#2. Sometimes it is the sharp contrasts in life, the bitter and the sweet; things not working out as planned, relationships falling apart, losing your loved ones - these are the things that shake you and make you appreciate life, see the good in it and love anew the people around you.

Amy Passantino

#3. College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

#4. Hope gives the heart wings; the
soul, an anchor.

Janet Todd

#5. Happiness is a temporary chemical imbalance of the true state of mind.

Drew Hayes

#6. Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.

Susan Sontag

#7. When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.

Jesse Jackson

#9. Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

#10. Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.

Robert C. Maynard

#11. I've had the sort of day that would make St. Francis of Assisi kick babies.

Douglas Adams

#12. What you want most out of life is the thing you have to give the most of

Steve Harvey

#13. No one ever comes back from Vietnam. Not really.

Gary D. Schmidt

#14. The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

#15. In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

Salvatore J. Cordileone

#16. Independence is happiness.

Susan B. Anthony

#17. The trick set me up. It's that simple.

Shadez

#18. Martel also knows Kryn will not accept him, readies himself, drawing his cloak of darkness from the closet of time around the corner from now, preparing to use it at the proper instant.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#19. Everyone's life is like music, you cannot appreciate if you wont listen to it.

Clandistine Canoy

#20. Football, fraternities, and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

#21. The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

#22. Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

#23. This country cannot be the country we want it to be if its story is told by only one group of citizens. Our goal is to give all Americans front door access to the truth,

Robert C. Maynard

#24. It is in seeing ourselves whole that we can begin to see ways of working out our differences, of understanding our similarities and of finally forming the cohesive nation that can one day experience the 'domestic tranquility' so hoped for by the framers of the Constitution.

Robert C. Maynard