Quotes by Mark Van Doren - Page 1

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Appreciation
Art
Education
Learning
Smile
Teacher
Assisting
Discovery
Teaching
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To fail to love is not to exist at all.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Love
Failing
Love Is
Exist
Fail
To Love
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A classic is a book that remains in print
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Book
Classic
Print
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Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Truth
Honesty
Taste
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Our best chance for happiness is education.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
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Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Wisdom
Wise
Dark
Wall
Wit
Between
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The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Literature
World
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Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Kings
Imagination
Ideas
May
Bring
Them
Entertain
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If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Gambling
Looks
Tables
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Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Experience
Words Of Wisdom
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Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Humor
Men
Sense Of Humor
Serious
Want
Sign
Wants
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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Freedom
Effort
Mean
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There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Carpe Diem
Limits
People
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There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Society
Confusion
World
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Weightless in water, swift as the wind, Subtle of purpose - a feather blown - I go with my oarsmen where they will, My beautiful body and theirs all one.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Beautiful
Water
Wind
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The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Jobs
Life
Loss
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The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Poetry
Loss
Perversion
Poet
Sentimental
World People See
Report
Poetry World People
Render
Talks
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There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Wisdom
Different
Facts
Two
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An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Errors
Ideas
Insecure
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The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Art
Book
Taken
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I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Attitude
Hate
Mind
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I love the fall. I love it because of the smells that you speak of; and also because things are dying, things that you don't have to take care of anymore, and the grass stops growing.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Death
Love
Fall
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Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Journey
Knowledge
Pieces
Skills
Use
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When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Failing
Reason Why
World
Love World Must
Aims
Conceal
Exist
Express
Fail
Reasons
Refuses
To Love
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Memory performs the impossible for man by the strength of his divine arms; holds together past and present, beholding both, existing in both, abides in the flowing, and gives continuity and dignity to human life.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Men
Memories
Past
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It’s a curious thing. I suppose most people think of artists as impatient but I don’t know of any first-rate artist who hasn’t manifested in his career an appalling patience, a willingness to wait and to do his best now in the expectation that next year he will do better.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Artist
Thinking
Years
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The connectedness of things is what the educator contemplates to the limit of his capacity. No human capacity is great enough to permit a vision of the world as simple, but if the educator does not aim at the vision no one else will, and the consequences are dire when no one does.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Simple
Teaching
Vision
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The genius of the Marx Brothers is for parody. They never are themselves. They exist too abundantly to be content with being that - they must go on, by the rapidest of transitions, to being something else. Groucho, in my opinion the bright star among the three, is never anything but the thing he is at the moment pretending to be.
Mark Van Doren / Poet
Opinion
Parody
Abundant
Among
Content
Bright
Brothers
Star
Exist
Groucho
In My Opinion
Marx
Something Else
Transitions
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