The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.
As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers
The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Use me then, my Saviour for whatever purpose and whatever way thou mayest require. Here is my poor heart, and empty vessel; fill it with Thy Grace.
Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.
Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.
Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over.
Be surprised at nothing. Let peace and stillness flood through you and envelop you completely in its cloak. Put on the whole armor of love - and yet feel, feel very deeply. Let tears flow, washing away impurities until you feel clean within and clean without. Become like an empty vessel ready to be filled with life's nectar.
Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel.
All that glitters is not gold.
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach. As long as you think mostly of getting, you will have nothing real to give.
The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Empty vessels make the most sound.
If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence revives my withered heart. You are the candle that lights the whole world and I am an empty vessel for your light.
The Christian is more than an empty vessel. He has...Someone within. We have a treasure in the earthen vessel, and not only a treasure - a transcendent power! That is humanity as God intended it to be. The vessel is not much in itself, but it holds an inestimable treasure, beyond price, and a transcendent power, greater than any other power known to men.
We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.
Sarah Palin is an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology that she doesn't even understand, and that is really scary. Nothing is more frightening than an empty vessel in power.
Strike while the iron is hot.
You cannot teach an old dog new tricks
The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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