Quotes on time management

"He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be found." A. A. Hodge "To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks." A. A. Milne "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." Abraham Lincoln "I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated." Al McGuire "It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." Albert Einstein "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." Albert Einstein "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Albert Einstein "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." Albert Einstein "Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you." Aldous Huxley "The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not." Aldous Huxley "It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated." Alec Bourne "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." Alvin Toffler "Academy: A modern school where football is taught." Ambrose Bierce "Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding." Ambrose Bierce "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious." Ambrose Bierce "Nine tenths of education is encouragement." Anatole France "The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards" Anatole France "An education isnt how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. Its being able to differentiate between what you know and what you dont." Anatole France "The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else." Anna Garlin Spencer "Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." Anne Frank "I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think." Anne Sullivan

"Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage" Arie de Gues "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle "All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth." Aristotle "Education is the best provision for old age." Aristotle It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." Aristotle "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." B.F. Skinner "Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality." Beatrix Potter "We cannot hold a torch to light anothers path without brightening our own." Ben Sweetland "There is no education like adversity." Benjamin Disraeli "We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique." Benjamin Jowett "I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; thats fair. In these words he epitomized the history of the human race." Bertrand Russell "Conservatives say teaching sex education in the public schools will promote promiscuity. With our education system? If we promote promiscuity the same way we promote math or science, theyve got nothing to worry about." Beverly Mickens "The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men." Bill Beattie "The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts." C. S. Lewis "If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning." Carl Rogers "The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change." Carl Rogers "The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change." Carl Rogers "Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks." Charlotte Bronte "Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself." Chinese Proverb "He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever." Chinese Proverb "The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn." Cicero

"With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men." Clarence Darrow "If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else." Cornelius Vanderbilt "Education is learning what you didnt even know you didnt know." Daniel J. Boorstin "I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal." David Selby "The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values." Dean William R. Inge "The foundation of every state is the education of its youth." Diogenes Laertius "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." Douglas Adams "I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework" Edith Ann, [Lily Tomlin] "It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is to be educated." Edith Hamilton "To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is educated." Edith Hamilton "The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself." Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army." Edward Everett "No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure." Emma Goldman "It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows." Epictetus "We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free." Epictetus "In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." Eric Hoffer "Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?" Erich Fromm "The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life." Ernest Renan "You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens." Ethel Barrymore "Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheepherding." Ezra Pound "Ye can lead a man up to the university, but you cant make him think." Finley peter Dunne "Everywhere I go Im asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they dont stifle enough of them. Theres many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." Flannery O Conner

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory." Friedrich Engels "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." Friedrich Nietzsche "Boredom will always remain the greatest enemy of school disciplines. If we remember that children are bored, not only when they dont happen to be interested in the subject or when the teacher doesnt make it interesting, but also when certain working conditions are out of focus with their basic needs, then we can realize what a great contributor to discipline problems boredom really is. Research has shown that boredom is closely related to frustration and that the effect of too much frustration is invariably irritability, withdrawal, rebellious opposition or aggressive rejection of the whole show." Fritz Redl "Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." G. M. Trevelyan "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre." Gail Godwin "A fools brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education." George Bernard Shaw "What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child." George Bernard Shaw "Education: a debt due from present to future generations." George Peabody "A child educated only at school is an uneducated child." George Santayana "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." George Santayana "The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas." George Santayana "Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom." George Washington Carver "Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another." Gilbert K. Chesterton "No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no mans education is complete." Gilbert K. Chesterton "The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn." Gloria Steinem "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being." Goethe "History is a race between education and catastrophe." H. G. Wells "It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn." Hannah More "Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." Hector Berlioz "Experience is a good school, but the fees are high." Heinrich Heine "If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world." Heinrich Heine "Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. "Light! Give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour." Helen Keller "College isnt the place to go for ideas." Helen Keller

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." Henry Brooks Adams "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." Henry Brooks Adams "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." Henry Brooks Adams "I was determined to know beans." Henry David Thoreau "Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave." Henry Peter Broughan "Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them." Henry Steele Commager "There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies." Henry Ward Beecher "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." Herbert Spencer "The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press." Ida B. Wells "It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it." Jacob Bronowski "Liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear." James B. Stockdale "Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them." James Baldwin