Dorothy Canfield Fisher Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• I never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed by their lack of brains, courage and initiative, by their extraordinary ability to get themselves into uncomfortable or dangerous situations and then wait in inert helplessness for someone to rescue them.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Character, Dangerous Situations, Sheep

• There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Character, Nurse, Essentials

• Vermont tradition is based on the idea that group life should leave each person as free as possible to arrange his own life. This freedom is the only climate in which (we feel) a human being may create his own happiness. ... Character itself lies deep and secret below the surface, unknown and unknowable by others. It is the mysterious core of life, which every man or woman has to cope with alone, to live with, to conquer and put in order, or to be defeated by.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Lying, Character, Men

• The teachers of small children are paid more than they were, but still far less than the importance of their work deserves, and they are still regarded by the unenlightened majority as insignificant compared to those who impart information to older children and adolescents, a class of pupils which, in the nature of things, is vastly more able to protect its own individuality from the character of the teacher.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1912). “A Montessori Mother”

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