Quote by Baltasar Gracian
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke t

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. – Baltasar Gracian

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Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art. – Baltasar Gracian

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NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space. – Christa McAuliffe

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I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders. – Martin Mull

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Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything – even mountains, rivers, plants and trees – should be your teacher. – Morihei Ueshiba

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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. – Khalil Gibran

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