Second Level: Explicating Quotes, Set 2
Continue interperting quotes. In this section we do not
offer specimen answers. Again, use this structure
to write, clarify, and explain the quotes in this activity:
Quote: “What is not fully understood is not possessed.”
— Goethe
Quote: “If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to
others.” — Tyron Edwards
Quote: “The mind is but a barren soil...unless it be continually
fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.” — Sir J. Reynolds
Quote: “What stubbing, plowing, digging, and harrowing is
to land, that thinking, reflecting, examining is to the mind.”
— Berkeley
Quote: “Don’t despair of a student if he has one clear idea.”
— Nathaniel Emmons
Quote: “Narrow minds think nothing right that is beyond their
own capacity.” — Rochefoucauld
Quote: “There is no more independence in politics than there is in
jail.”— Will Rogers
Quote: “If you wish the sympathy of broad masses then you must
tell them the crudest and most stupid things.” — Adolf Hitler
Quote: “Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life:
men of no principle, but of great talent: and men of no talent; but
of one principle — that of obedience to their superiors.”
— Wendell Phillips