“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”
William Butler Yeats
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Imagination
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“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
William Butler Yeats
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Education
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“Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.”
William Butler Yeats
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
William Butler Yeats
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Certainty
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“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.”
William Butler Yeats
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Censorship
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“Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O. When may it suffice?”
William Butler Yeats
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Sacrifice
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“In dreams begin responsibility.”
William Butler Yeats
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Responsibility
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“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”
William Butler Yeats
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reason
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“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.”
William Butler Yeats
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Planning
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“Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire.”
William Butler Yeats
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Motivational
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“A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.”
William Butler Yeats
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Love
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“Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.”
William Butler Yeats
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Military
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“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”
William Butler Yeats
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Language
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“We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.”
William Butler Yeats
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Happiness
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“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.”
William Butler Yeats
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Alcohol
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“An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick”
William Butler Yeats
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Age
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“Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.”
William Butler Yeats
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Friendship
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“And say my glory was I had such friends.”
William Butler Yeats
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Friendship
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“I carry from my mother’s womb a fanatic’s heart.”
William Butler Yeats
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Fanaticism
