Category Archives: Thought For the Day

Thought For the Day: Discuss Disagreements Do Not Argue

“Discussions are always better than arguments because an argument is to find out who is right, and a discussion is to find what is right.”  – Anonymous        

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Thought For the Day: What We Hate, We Graft Onto Our Souls

“In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.” – Mary Renault, novelist (4 Sep 1905-1983)    

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Thought For the Day: Allowing Small Things To Anger You Indicates the Size of Your Soul

“If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?” – Sydney J. Harris    

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Thought For the Day: Knowledge of This World Begins In Its Details

“Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Successful Teaching Is When Students Want To Learn and Grow On Their Own

“The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, “The children are now working as if I did not exist.”  – Maria Montessori, educator (31 Aug 1870-1952)      

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Thought For the Day: There Are No Yesterdays On the Road; There Is Only Now

“When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat-Moon, travel writer (b. 27 Aug 1939)      

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Thought For the Day: The First Duty of An Educator Is To Teach That Life Must Unfold Freely

“To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself, that is the first duty of the educator.” – Maria Montessori, educator (31 Aug 1870-1952)        

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Thought For the Day: Freedom Is Never More Than One Generation Away From Extinction

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” – Ronald Reagan          

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Thought For the Day: Humans Should be Judged On Their Character And Not the Color of Their Skin

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’ … I have a dream that … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Nothing Great In This World Has Been Accomplished Without Passion

“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, philosopher (27 Aug 1770-1831)    

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