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Words of Wisdom

Good without evil, love without hatred, and life without death is no adventure for the man who seeks it

~Nyril~

Progress is not created by contented people

~Frank Tyger

Capacity without education is deplorable,

and education without capacity is thrown away.

~Saadi

Wisdom is knowing what to do next,

skill is knowing how to do it,

and virtue is doing it.

~Anonymous

The true purpose of education is the

harmonious development of all our faculties...

and the first object of any learning

is that it should serve us in the future.

~Montapert

Education is turning things over in the mind.

~Robert Frost

The best service a book, a sermon, or a lecture

can render you is not merely to impart truth,

but to make you think it out

for yourself.

~A. P. Gouthey

Education commences at the mother's knee,

and every word spoken within the hearing of little

children tends toward formation of character.

~H. Ballou

Educate men without religion

and you make them but clever devils.

~Arthur Wellesley- Duke of Wellington

Education is leading human souls

to what is best,

and making what is best of them.

The training which makes men

happiest in themselves

also makes them the most serviceable to others.

~John Ruskin

Nature and books belong to

the eyes that see them.

~Ralph Waldo Emersom

Natural ability without education

has more often raised a man

to glory and virtue

than education without natural ability.

~Cicero

Native ability without education

is like a tree without fruit.

~Aristippus

The aim of education should be the achievement

of results that the student requires by reason of his

human nature, and not the production of effects

that the educator believes should be had.

~Alexis Carrel

Everyone receives two educations:

the education which he gets from others,

and the education which he gives to himself.

Of the two,

the second one is the more important.

~Edward Gibbon

The mark of an educated man

is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the

basis of insufficient information.

~Abbott L. Lowell

Education is not preparation for life;

Education is life itself.

~John Dewey

You can't stop people from thinking...

but you can start them.

~Frank A. Dusch

Success seems to be largely a matter of

hanging on after others have let go.

~William Feather

The environment you fashion out of your thoughts,

your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy,

is the only climate you will ever live in.

~Alfred A. Montapert

A good example is a lesson

anyone can read.

~Anonymous

A wise man can learn from another man's

experience. A fool cannot learn

even from his own.

~Will Durant

Experience is not what happens to you, 

it is what you do with what happens to you.

~Aldous Huxley

To realize a dream one must

exchange a portion of ones life.

~Anonymous

You get the best out of others,

when you give the best of yourself.

~Harvey Firestone

He that walketh with wise men

shall be wise.

~Proverbs 13:20

Goals are as essential to success

as air is to life.

~Schwartz

If you reach for nothing,

you will get it.

~Anonymous

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace,

is counted as wise;

and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed

a man of understanding.

~Proverbs 17:28

When you row another person

across the river,

you get there yourself.

~Anonymous

Those who invest themselves

in helping others,

are involved in the most important

work on the face of the earth.

~Hoffer

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,

never returns to its original dimensions.

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nothing is more terrible to see

than ignorance in action.

~Goethe

Ignorance is weakness.

~Plato

Everybody is ignorant,

only on different subjects.

~Will Rogers

A teacher who is attempting to teach

without inspiring the pupil with a desire

to learn, is hammering on cold iron.

~Horace Mann

The important thing is not how much you know,

but the quality of what you know.

~Erasmus

What is college? An institute of learning.

What is business? An institute of learning.

Life itself is an institute of learning.

~Thomas Alva Edison

A learned man has always wealth in himself.

~Phaedrus

You cannot teach a man anything;

you can only help him find it for himself.

~Galileo

If your education consists only

in what you got from books,

it will not be complete until you have had a

postgraduate course in experience.

~Alfred A. Montapert

Education is a great and inspiring adventure

that takes a lifetime to learn.

~Anonymous

I am still learning.

~Michaelangelo

If I shall not be learning now,

when shall I be?

~Lacydes of Cyrene

Learning is a treasure which follows

its owner everywhere.

~Chinese Proverb

A great library contains the diary

of the human race. The great

consulting room of a wise man is a library.

~G.Dawson

The good life is inspired by love

and guided by knowledge.

~Bertrand Russell

Know how to listen and you will profit

even from those who talk badly.

~Plutarch

We learn wisdom from failure

much more than from success;

we often discover what will do,

by finding out what will not do;

and probably he who never made a

mistake never made a discovery.

~Samuel Smiles

Give me the mothers of the nation to educate,

and you may do what you like with the boys,

~Garibaldi

Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.

~Publilus Syrus

I will study and get ready,

and perhaps my chance will come.

~Abraham Lincoln

A wise man will make more

opportunities than he finds.

~Sir Francis Bacon

An optimist sees an opportunity

in every calamity.

A Pessimist sees a calamity

in every opportunity.

~Herbert Prochnow

Make the most of yourself,

for that is all there is to you.

~Ralph Waldo Emmerson

A poem begins in delight

and ends in wisdom.

~Robert Frost

Problems are only

opportunities

in work clothes.

~Henry J. Kaiser

Education is essential to change,

for education creates both wants

and the ability to satisfy them.

~H.S. Commager

A proverb is a short sentence

based on long experience.

~Miguel de Cervantes

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

~Sophocles

Cream always rises to the top.

~Anonymous

Philosophy...is not theology,

for where theology takes its departure

from articles of religious faith,

philosophy starts with common sense and attempts

to refine and deepen the understanding of

the world which is latent in common sense.

~Mortimer J. Adler

My business is to teach my aspirations

to comform themselves to fact,

not to try to make the facts

harmonize with my aspirations.

~T. H. Huxley

Basic research is what I am doing

when I don't know what I am doing.

~Braun

The test of a vocation is the

love of the drudgery it involves.

~L. P. Smith

The true teacher defends his pupils

against his own personal influence.

~Alcot

"For example" is not proof.

~Yiddish Proverb

The eagle never lost so much time as

when he submitted to learn from the crow.

~Blake

The gift of teaching is a pecular

talent and implies a need and

a craving in the teacher himself.

~Chapman

He who knows how to be poor

knows everything.

~Michelet

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