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“The longer you
look at it the less
you will like it.”
“The longer you look at it the
less you will like it.”
(George Sciberras 1944 - )
I was only hinting
at my photo and
not the
PowerPoint Show.
This I suggest you
should share.
(George Sciberras)
"Plants are shaped
by cultivation and
men by education. ..
Everything we do
not have at our birth
and which we need
when we are grown
is given us by
education."
(Jean Jacques Rousseau)
"Since philosophy
is the art which
teaches us how to
live, and since
children need to
learn it as much as
we do at other
ages, why do we
not instruct them in
it?"
(Michel de Montaigne,
1533 - 1592)
“"Several years have now
elapsed since I first became
aware that I had accepted,
even from my youth, many
false opinions for true, and that
consequently what I afterwards
based on such principles was
highly doubtful: and from that
time I was convinced of the
necessity of undertaking once
in my life to rid myself of all the
opinions I had adopted, and of
commencing anew the work of
building from the foundation, if I
desired to establish a firm and
abiding superstructure in the
sciences."…..
Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650)
"Science knows
no country,
because
knowledge
belongs to
humanity, and is
the torch which
illuminates the
world."
(Louis Pasteur,
1822 - 1895)
"The educated
differ from the
uneducated, as
the living from
the dead."
(Aristotle, 384 - 322 B.C.)
“To learn and
from time to time
to apply what
one has learned,
isn't that a
pleasure?”
(Confucius, 551 - 479 B.C.)
"All things come
out of the One
and the One out
of all things."
(Heraclitus, 500 B.C.)
"The object of
education is to
teach us love
of beauty."
(Plato, 427 - 347 B.C.)
"All truths are easy
to understand once
they are
discovered; ... the
authority of a
thousand is not
worth the humble
reasoning of a
single individual."
(Galileo Galilei, 1564 - 1642)
“There seems to
me too much
misery in the
world. I cannot
persuade myself
that a beneficent
and omnipotent
God would have
designedly created
that a cat should
play with mice.“
Charles Darwin (1809- 1882)
'Creativity takes
courage. ... The
effort to see things
without distortion
takes something like
courage and this
courage is essential
to the artist, who has
to look at everything
as though he saw it
for the first time.'
Henri Matisse (1869 –1954)
'The only time I
feel alive is
when I'm
painting.’
Vincent Van Gogh
(1853 - 1890)
'Of course you will say
that I ought to be
practical and ought to
try and paint the way
they want me to paint.
Well, I will tell you a
secret. I have tried and I
have tried very hard, but
I can't do it. I just can't
do it! And that is why I
am just a little crazy.'
(Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606 – 1669)
"Springtime is upon us.
The birds celebrate her
return with festive song,
and murmuring streams
are softly caressed by the
breezes. Thunderstorms,
those heralds of Spring,
roar, casting their dark
mantle over heaven,
Then they die away to
silence, and the birds
take up their charming
songs once more. ..."
Classical Musician, Antonio Vivaldi
(1678-1741).
Music is the one
incorporeal
entrance into the
higher world of
knowledge which
comprehends
mankind but which
mankind cannot
comprehend."
Classical Music Composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770 - 1827).
“The aim and
final reason of all
music should be
nothing else but
the Glory of God
and the
refreshment of
the spirit."
German Baroque Composer,
Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685 - 1750).
“Nor do I hear in
my imagination the
parts successively,
I hear them all at
once. What a
delight this is! All
this inventing, this
producing, takes
place in a pleasing,
lively dream."
Classical Music Composer,
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756 -1791).
"A nation that
destroys it's soils
destroys itself.
Forests are the
lungs of our land,
purifying the air
and giving fresh
strength to our
people."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
(1882 – 1945)
"Though force can
protect in
emergency, only
justice, fairness,
consideration and
co-operation can
finally lead men to
the dawn of eternal
peace."
34thAmerican President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1890 - 1969).
"We cannot be
both the world’s
leading
champion of
peace and the
world’s leading
supplier of
arms."
39th American President,
Jimmy Carter (1924 - ).
"The great enemy
of the truth is very
often not the lie,
deliberate,
contrived and
dishonest, but the
myth, persistent,
persuasive and
unrealistic.”
35th American President,
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
"I have a dream
that ...my children
will one day live in
a nation where
they will not be
judged by the
colour of their skin,
but by the content
of their character."
Martin Luther King Jr,
(1929-1968)
"An eye for an
eye only ends up
making the
whole world
blind."
Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi
(1869 - 1948).
"Few things are
brought to a
successful issue
by impetuous
desire, but most
by calm and
prudent
forethought."
French Emperor
Napoleon Bonaparte
(1769 - 1821).
"If religion is the
establishing of a
relationship between
man & universe, then
morality is the
indication &
explanation of those
activities that
automatically result
when a person
maintains one or other
relationship to the
universe."
(Leo Tolstoy 1828 - 1910)
"Put your sword
back into its
place; for all
those who take
up the sword
shall perish by
the sword."
(Jesus of Nazareth / Jesus Christ)