Interesting Quotations

I am still learning. Michelangelo in 1560, at age 85 Thinking is easy, acting difficult, and to put ones thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. Goethe Limited expectations yield only limited results. Susan Laurson Willlig True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. Krishnamurti I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious. Albert Einstein What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you its like the different between romantic love and an arranged marriage. Terrence Rafferty In youth we learn, in age we understand. Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not? George Bernard Shaw He who ask a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. Chinese proverb If you are planning for year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. Chinese proverb The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know. Carl Rogers A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. Thomas Carruthers To teach is to learn twice. Joseph Joubert To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the learner. George B. Leonard Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers. Josef Albers I was still learning when I taught my last class. Claude M. Fuess, after 40 years of teaching Not art, not books, but life itself is the true basis of teaching and education. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture. Frantz Fanon It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in the creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein If you think you can or think you can't you're probably right. Henry Ford I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. Socrates If the child is not learning the way you are teaching, then you must teach in the way the child learns. Rita Dunn We are all pupils and we are all teachers. Gilbert Highet The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle The brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Carl Sagan Language is the dress of thought. Samuel Johnson The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. Lutwig Wittgenstein If ever I am a teacher, it will be to learn more than to teach. Dorothee De Luzy If the only tool you have is a hammer, all problems begin to look like nails. Abraham Maslow Birds never sing in caves. Henry David Thoreau If you have knowledge let other light their candles at it. Thomas Fuller It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. Rene Descartes

One doesnt discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Andre Gide If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. Tryon Edwards Let our teaching be full of ideas. Hitherto it has been stuffed only with facts. Anatole France The highest function of the teacher consists not so much in imparting knowledge as in stimulating the pupil in its love and pursuit. Henri Federic Amiel Only the educated are free. Epictetus I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. Khalil Gibran The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Forbes Not everything that is incredible is untrue. Cardinal de Retz Great spirits have always faced opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein I think and think. Ninety-nine times I am wrong, but the hundreth time I am right Albert Einstein No new truth is really learned until it is acted upon. Father John Powell, S.J. Creativity is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited but creativity surrounds the world. Albert Einstein The human mind is our fundamental resource. John F. Kennedy Learning is the eye of the mind. Thomas Drake Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Derek Bok

A teacher affect eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Brooks Adams Close both eyes to see with the other eye. Jalal Al-din Rumi A man who has no imagination has no wings. Mohammed Ali Clay Discovery lies in seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorgy You probably know more than 100,000 words, you use only 150 for half of what you say. David Meyers Give me liberty or give me death! Patrick Henry, 1776 Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy Work is love made visible Khalil Gibran How can those who are warm understand those who are cold? Abraham Maslov If you asked me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud. Emile Zola Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas If they do not hear your call, walk alone, walk alone. Rabindranath Tagore Example is more efficacious than precept. Samuel Johnson A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. Gloria Steinem Every man loves what he is good at. Thomas Shadwell Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Thomas Haynes Bailey The tree is known by its fruit. The Bible It is difficulties that show what men are.

Epictetus To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. Bernard Baruch (at age eighty-five) Ah, but a mans reach should exceed his grasp. Or whats a heaven for? Rupert Browning When angry count ten before you speak, if very angry, an hundred. Thomas Jefferson We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. Thomas Jefferson (in the Declaration of Independence of the United States) Appearances are often deceiving. Aesop A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Lao-tsu Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. Charles W. Eliot We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. Martin Luther King The only certainty is that nothing is certain. Pliny the Elder It is only the wisest and the very stupid who cannot change. Confucious The more things change the more they remain the same. Alphonse Carr Tell me what company you keep, and Ill tell you who you are. Miguel de Cervantes Nature has given men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we may speak. Epictetus It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. Dolores Ibarruri I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty. John D. Rockefeller

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. Ali Ibn Ali Talib All of us do not have equal talents, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents. John F. Kennedy The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. William Connor Magee A fool must now and then be right, by chance. Matthew Cowper The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. W.E.B. DuBois Those who deny freedom for others deserve it not for themselves. Abraham Lincoln Liberty is the right to do what the law allows. Baron de Montesquieu Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. Thomas Payne Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. George Bernard Shaw A faithful friend is the medicine of life. The Bible In prosperity our friends know us, in adversity we know our friends. Churton Collins Fact makes our relatives, choice makes our friends. Jaques Delille If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one. John Galsworthy Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas Edison It is more blessed to give than to receive. The Bible Sometimes we stare so long at the door that has been closed to us, we do not see the many doors that are open. Alexander Graham Bell Gratitude is the memory of the heart. Jean Baptiste Massieu

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Eupery Down in their hearts, wise men know this is truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others. Elbert Hubbard The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. Jeanne-Marie Roland Men are born equal but they are born different. Erich Fromm Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernable in the beginning. Igor Stravinsky Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop That which does not kill me makes me stronger. Nietzsche My life is my message. Mahatma Gandhi It is impossible to love and to be wise. Francis Bacon At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. George Sand Tis better to have loved and lost Then never to have loved at all. Alfred Lord Tennyson I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Stephen Leacock God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. James Barrie In politics if you want anything said ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. Margaret Thatcher Peace has no borders. Yitzhak Rabin

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people too. Spencer Johnson Reverence for the past is important, but so is regard for the future. Brad Herzog Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful. Annette Funicello To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. Marilyn vos Savant When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure. Alice Hoffman Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. Aphra Ben The love of money is the root of all evil. The Bible Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people dont recognize them. Ann Landers While we stop to think, we often stop to miss our opportunity. Publilius Syrus Good order is the foundation of all good things. Edumund Burke Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford. Samuel Johnson If at first you dont succeed, try, try again. William Edward Hickson God is with those who patiently persevere. The Quran, 2: 153 Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Mao Tse-Tung Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men Lord Acton Praise makes good men better and bad men worse. Thomas Fuller

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow. Horace The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future. Robert. G. Ingersoll No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt What were saying today is that youre either part of the solution or youre part of the problem. Eldridge Cleaver Delay is preferable to error. Thomas Jefferson never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. Lord Chesterfield After all, there is but one race humanity. George Moore Living well is the best revenge. George Herbert Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. John F. Kennedy Revolutions are the locomotives of history. Nikita Krushchev Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. Henry James If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelly Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. Benjamin Franklin A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. John A. Shedd If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when? The Talmud He that is slow to anger is better than the powerful. The Bible The Gods help them that help themselves. Aesop The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates Every man is the architect of his own future. Appius Claudius Saecus Men trust their ears less than their eyes. Herodotus Even a fool, when he holds his peace, is counted wise. The Bible I often regret that I have spoken, never that I have been silent. Publius Maximus. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is; please everybody. Herbert Bayard Swope What is food to one, is to others bitter poison. Lucretius The world I s a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. Saint Augustine Who dares to teach, must never cease to learn. John Cotton Dana I think, therefore I am. Rene Descartes Remember that time is money. Benjamin Franklin Time heals grief and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same person. Blaise Pascal There is nothing so powerful as the truth, -- and often nothing so strange. Daniel Webster Varietys the very spice of life That gives it all its flavor. William Cowper victory finds a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan. Count Galeazzo Ciano The world does not grow better by force William J. Gaynor Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark Twain If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Sir Isaac Newton Laws are silent in time of war. War is like love, it always finds a way. Bertolt Brecht (in Mother Courage) There never was a good war or a bad peace. Benjamin Franklin Wealth makes many friends. The Bible It is better to live rich than to die rich. Samuel Johnson That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. Henry David Thoreau One is not born a woman, one becomes one. Simone de Beauvoir When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery. Maxim Gorky The pen is mightier than the sword. Edward Bulwer-Lytton Fiction gives a second chance that life denies us. Paul Theroux No young man believes that he shall ever die. William Hazlit Ability is nothing without opportunity. Napoleon Bonaparte It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. Warren Buffet Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. Samuel Johnson When we lose the right to be different, we lost the privilege to be free. Charles Evans Hughes Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. John F. Kennedy All things are possible to one who believes.

St. Bernard of Clairvaux Love is the greatest beautifier in the universe. May Christie The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust Have no friends not equal to yourself. Confucius He is richest who is content with the least. Socrates Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Ralph Waldo Emerson What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. Karl Menniger We can never go back again, that much is certain. Daphne DuMaurier I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy. Marie Curie When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. Eleanor Roosevelt It only takes one person to change your life you. Ruth Casey To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. Mother Teresa You dont get to choose how you are going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you are going to live. Now. Joan Baez Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas. Helen Keller, when her books were burned by the Nazis Well-behaved women rarely make history. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Confucius You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences. Somerset Maugham. One man with courage makes a majority.

Andrew Jackson Dream as if youll live forever. Live as if youll die tomorrow. James Dean A simple and proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong. Jimmy Carter A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. Alexander Solzhenitsyn Reading, to me, is simply the expansion of one's mind to include some people whom you just didn't get to meet before. Ntozake Shange An open enemy is less to be feared than a false friend. Hank Aaron We must be the change we wish to see. Mohandas Gandhi Bravery is not a quality of the body, it is of the soul. Mohandas Gandhi Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. Mohandas Gandhi Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion. Mohandas Gandhi

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Tom Stoppard A book always has two authors: the one who wrote it and the one who reads it. Jacques Salome No tool is more beneficial than intelligence. No enemy is more harmful than ignorance. Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Harithi al-Baghdadi al-Mufid I am the Roman Emperor, and I am above grammar. Sigismund To read too many books is harmful. Mao Zedong Writing eases my suffering. When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. Gao Xingjian

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