Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.

In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.

One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

It's a weird sensation to be mad and learning at the same time.

Anger is a good motivator.

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.

While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves.

Love heightens all senses - except the common.

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

There is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequences of his passions--does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread.

Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish.

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.

Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.

I'd rather deal with anger than apathy.

Rage is mental imbecility.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door