English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

David Brooks Quotes

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

David Brooks

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

James Dickey quote: "The women of the South have brought into American literature a..."
The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie. James Dickey
When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground. Marion Cotillard
We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood. Mike Davidson
Robin Gibb quote: "It's hard for me to put on weight."
It's hard for me to put on weight. Robin Gibb
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority. George Bancroft
All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here. Susan Sontag
Curious indeed how these things happen. The wand chooses the wizard, remember...I think we must expect great things from you, Mr. Potter... After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things? terrible, yes, but great. J. K. Rowling
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. Mikhail Bakunin
R. Lee Ermey quote: "Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days."
Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days. R. Lee Ermey
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. Sigmund Freud
It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends. Yannick Noah
Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all. John Cleese
Michael Gambon quote: "I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year."
I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year. Michael Gambon
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night."
A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night. J. R. R. Tolkien
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation. Abigail Adams