#others

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#aspiration #children #competence #fathers #highest

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#answers #because #consideration #easy #educated

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#bottle #buy #difficult #distinguish #often

It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal. ↗

— Eknath Easwaran

#crisis #deal #every #experience #future

The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#also #better #certain #condition #conditions

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#community #education #found #improving #leaving

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#education #end #fill #furnish #great

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#better #day #day to day #mind #never

The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#enjoy #learn #life #more #others

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. ↗

— George Eliot

#dead #fingers #handle #happen #make