Maria Montessori Quotes

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

The child should live in an environment of beauty.

I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.

The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty.

The development of a child is guaranteed in his curiosity to discover the cause behind each and every incident.

If you take the same child and put them in two different places, it will dramatically shape the way in which their economic outcomes are realized later in life.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

Learning is about much more than science and math. Doing theater, music, and art in school really helps children's minds grow because they're using different parts of their brains. Parents who care should insist on that.

It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.

Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More beautiful than, say, sky, and far more beautiful than beautiful. Well then, in Welsh for me cellar doors are extraordinarily frequent.

No child is bad from the beginning, they only imitate their atmosphere.

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.

Those people that don't see the power in art maybe have never been a part of an art, in a real way. To experience it, and to see and witness how it affects people, we're not doing it just to create professionals. It's to add another dimension to the way that children think and the way they experience certain things. If you didn't have dance, music and singing, it just seems so odd to me.

I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures.

Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and desires to posses them.