Famous quotes containing the words sand, point and/or school:
“Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.”
—Robert Bresson (b. 1907)