Leslie Stephen Quotes

It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.

My mother became a believer, and then I became a believer. But when I was 43 years old, I began to think for myself, somehow, by fluke and by grace. And I thought, "Oh, my. I was so mistaken." The world isn't what I believed it to be. I am not what I believed me to be, and neither is anyone.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Education, this is the great word which sums up our whole doctrine

Without education, you’re not you and I’m not me.

Education is, in the end, about individual interactions and about learning.

When I started law school in 2010, I would have called myself an atheist. When I graduated law school in 2013, I was exploring my faith again. A lot changed in those three years.

I do think we have collectively begun to conflate the institutions of education for education itself. Education is an individual's pursuit of understanding and has a lot of implications for that person, for the kind of person that they are.

It wasn't until I got to college and had a lot of my ego beaten out of me... That's when I started to turn to literature as something deeper than a way to put up points.

That's just my - I think that I made a decision when I was 16 - I grew up in a family that I was taught there was a God and all that, but I didn't really have a relationship with Christ until I was 16. And that was a game changer for me. That's really become the foundation of my life.

Any educated person recognizes that curiosity and creativity aren't just important; they are among the essential human activities.

Intellectual and emotional curiosity is what I hope I've taught my children.

An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.

I think religion is a gateway for spiritual awakening.

Jesus was a teacher, in a way. I mean, essentially, Jesus was a teacher. He was teaching people. He was helping them see themselves for what they were. He was helping them see their power, their strength, their beauty, what they're capable of.

My spiritual journey began at conception.

Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life

I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.

The one experience that I hope every student has at some point in their lives is to have some belief you profoundly, deeply hold, proved to be wrong because that is the most eye-opening experience you can have, and as a scientist, to me, is the most exciting experience I can ever have.

Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books.

To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.

Spirituality means seeking experience. Not just belief.

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own comprehension; whenit, the explorer, is altogether to obscure land that it must search and where all its baggage is of no use. To search? That is not all: to create.

True teaching liberates the student from his teacher.