Awake/content

Famous quotes containing the words awake and/or content:

“To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Quintilian [educational writer in Rome about A.D. 100] hoped that teachers would be sensitive to individual differences of temperament and ability. . . . Beating, he thought, was usually unnecessary. A teacher who had made the effort to understand his pupil’s individual needs and character could probably dispense with it: “I will content myself with saying that children are helpless and easily victimized, and that therefore no one should be given unlimited power over them.””
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)