Education is not the filling of a pail, but rather the lighting of a fire. W. B. Yeats View this quote
Also know as William Butler Yeats
It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield. W. B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats
Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet. W. B. Yeats
Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love. W. B. Yeats
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. W. B. Yeats
Myself I must remake. W. B. Yeats
No man has ever lived that had enough of children’s gratitude or woman’s love. W. B. Yeats
Rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination. W. B. Yeats
Talent perceives differences; genius, unity. W. B. Yeats
Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire. W. B. Yeats
Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought. W. B. Yeats
Irish poet and playwright
June 13th, 1865 - January 28th, 1939
