Catherine The Great said this quote

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

~ Catherine The Great

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

~ Catherine The Great

One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has a custom them to obedience and experience has made them cautious in conversation with their teachers.

~ Catherine The Great

One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has accustomed them to obedience, and experience has made them cautious in their conversation with their teachers. Will you not draw from this the fine maxim that one should not scold children too much, but should make them trustful, so that they will not conceal their stupidities from us?

~ Catherine The Great