Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every
society. Kofi Annan.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Bill Gates
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
George Bernard Shaw
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the
question.
Tennessee Williams
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to
question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
Peter Abelard
'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.
Thomas Fuller
A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.
Bo Bennett
One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply
about justice, and they they have open minds.
Zack de la Rocha
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's
being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. Anatole France
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. Gail Godwin
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert M. Hutchins
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. Mark Twain
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G.K. Chesterton
One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will
die. Evelyn Waugh.
It’s interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a DeNiro
without a Scorsese. Jason Patric
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer
uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds. Dorothy L. Sayers.
When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I’m more eloquent.
I plan to wear them more often. Meg Ryan
A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education. –Smiley Blanton
Information’s pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience –Clarence Day
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! Dr.
Seuss
Don’t give up. I believe in you all.. A person’s a person, no matter how small. Dr. Seuss
Why fit in when you were born to standout. Dr. Seuss
Today I shall behave as if this is the day I will be remembered. Dr. Seuss
To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world. Dr. Seuss.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the cred of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent
virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” Winston Churchill
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things in to your own
hands. Clint Eastwood.
The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. Clint Eastwood.
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you
start.
Nido Qubein
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the
outcome.
Michael Jordan
Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back. – Babe Ruth
We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. –Ronald Reagan
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be
shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and
how he treats people who can’t fight back. Abigail Van Buren.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and
renunciation. It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it is another to think that
yours is the only path. Paulo Coelho.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be
felt with the heart. – Helen Keller
Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
Bill Copeland
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis
Stevenson
Hope is a waking dream –Aristotle
Believe you can and you’re halfway there Theodore Roosevelt
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. Alexander Hamilton
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. –G.K. Chesterton
If you have some respect for people as they are you can be more effective I helping them to
become better than they are. – John W Gardner
To be one; to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even
greater. – Bono
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he
chooses to be so or not. – Nathanial Hawthorne
Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for
that. If you can’t love and respect yourself- not one else will be able to make that happen. Accept
who are- completely; the good and the bad- and make changes as YOU see fit- not because you
think someone else wants you to be different.
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline, when you have both
firmly under your belt, that’s real power –Clint Eastwood
Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance? –Abdul Kalam
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the cred of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent
virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” Winston Churchill
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr.
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing,
and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Harry S. Truman
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
E. B. White
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse-Tung
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of
right or wrong.
Richard Armour
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may
become robots. Erich Fromm
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners,
and instant cameras teach patience to its young? Paul Sweeney
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi
Sometimes good things fall apart so that better things can fall into place. Anonymous
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Gandhi.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to
jobs.
Bill Gates
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does
that much better.
Plutarch
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. Douglas
Adams
Thanksgiving Day is a jewel to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not
take the day, and leave out the gratitude. E.P. Powell
It’s like being at the kids’ table at Thanksgiving – you can put your elbows on it, you don’t have
to talk politics… no matter how old I get, there’s always a part of me that’s sitting there. John
Hughes
I’ve always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way, and
you’ve got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to
whatever it is you want to accomplish. Chuck Norris.
It’s the bullies who are afraid, are the ones that do all the fighting. It’s not the secure kids that get
out there and fight. It’s the insecure kids. Chuck Norris.
In order to succeed your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it’s going to work or
whether I’m going to fall flat on my face. Johnny Depp
Don’t solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You
want to find the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you’re just looking to your
friend for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multi-million dollar ideas in their tracks. Sara
Blakely.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. Albert
Einstein.
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw.
The power to question is the basis of all human progress. Indira Gandhi.
I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. Ernest
Hemingway.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. Epictetus
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has
developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination
and weird clothes. Bill Cosby
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Bill Cosby
Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine. James Earl Jones
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. William
Shakespeare
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. William
Shakespeare
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can. Lucille Ball
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. Lucille Ball
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a
little more. Louis L’Amour
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life
trying to save. –Will Rogers
A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it’s an undo-it-yourself project –Abigail Van Buren
Be bold in what you stand for and careful what you fall for. – Ruth Boorstin
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination –
Tommy Lasorda
Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but want a different one. – Ivern Ball
The best substitute for experience is being sixteen. –Raymond Duncan
People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it. –John
Steinbeck
You will stay young as long as you learn, form new habits and don’t mind being contradicted. –
Marie von Ebner-Eschenback
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave
unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Dorothy Nevill
Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he’s really in
trouble. Dennis Fakes
Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning
the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the brakes are out of order –Maggie
Scarf
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott
Adams
It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers –James Thurber
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said. Peter F. Drucker
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or
later, with astounding accuracy. – Florence Scovel Shinn
The more that you read, the more things you’ll know. The ore that you learn, the more places
you’ll go. Dr. Seuss
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh the thinks you can think up if you
only try. Dr. Seuss.
Think and wonder, wonder and think. Dr. Seuss.
It’s not about what it is, it’s about what I can become. Dr. Seuss
I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are
all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music. Billy Joel.
Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen
through music. Jimi Hendrix
In literature, evil often triumphs but never conquers. Anonymous
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes.
Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men.
Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. James A.
Baldwin
Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music, or pictures, or architecture or anything else,
is always a portrait of himself. –Samuel Butler
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really
like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating
himself. –Jim Rohn
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression. –Alfred North
Whitehead.
Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There’s an objective and a subjective camera, like there’s a
third and first person narrator in literature. –Manual Puig
Literature add to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies
that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have
already become. –C.S. Lewis
There are two methods for the literary study of any book- the first being the study of its through
and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. Lafradio Hearn
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying
with ordinary words something extraordinary. Boris Pasternak
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose. Margaret Atwood.
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a
genre of literature or it does not exist. Harold Bloom.
What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when
we encounter them. Stephan Jenkins
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science
crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Barbara Tuchman
Literature is the question minus the answer. Roland Barthes.
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th
century. Daniel J Boorstin
There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides –John Stuart Mill
The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture. It is a perpetual
source of encouragement, advocacy, assurance, and emotional refueling that empowers a child to
venture with confidence into the greater world and to be come all that he can be. Marianne
Neifert.
Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they
provide something steady, reliable, and safe in a confusing world. Susan Lieberman
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors
must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. James Madison
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That
some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college
professors. Maya Angelou
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People
feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance
leads to fear. Bill Gates
Reason obeys itself, and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. Thomas Paine.
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. Plato
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance all things are attainable. Thomas Foxwell
Buxton
Our greatest glory is not never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the human lot to try and fail. David Mamet
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. Gail Sheehy
The real hero is always a hero by mistake. Umberto Eco
Fear always springs from ignorance Ralph Waldo Emerson
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. Bernadette
Devlin
The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience. J.F. Clarke
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for
happiness. William E Gladstone
Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary of learning. Antisthenes
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence
plus character- that is the goal of education. MLK Jr.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. MLK jr.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William Morris.
It is not by muscle, speed or physical dexterity that great things are achieve, but by reflection,
force of character and judgment. Marcus Jullius Cicero.
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and
failing to achieve anything useful. Margaret J. Wheatley.
Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment
has passed. Cavett Robert.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in
the next. Abraham Lincoln
Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things hard. Mason Cooley.
While we are postponing, life speeds by. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. John W. Gardner
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. Josh Billings
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from
failure. Colin Powell
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted. David
Bly
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. Arthur
Conan Doyle
The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit. Morgan Freeman.
You don’t build a bond without being present. James Earl Jones
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just
government should refuse or rest on inference. Thomas Jefferson
The constitution is the guide which I never will abandon. George Washington.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. John C Maxwell.
Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better. Bill Bradley
Don’t interfere with anything in the constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only
safeguard of our liberties. Abraham Lincoln.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. Abraham Lincoln
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. Friedrich Schiller
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself. David
Ogilvy
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the
meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. Philip K. Dick.
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is
an important element in democratic society. Edward Bernays
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. MLK Jr.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make
mistakes, but they don’t quit. Conrad Hilton
Try not. Do or do not, there is no try. Yoda
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. Max Depree
You can motivate by fear. You can motivate by reward. But both of these methods are only
temporary. The only lasting thing is self-motivation. Homer Rice
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. Anonymous.
Success is a peace of mind, which is a direct result of self satisfaction in knowing you made the
effort to do the best of which you are capable. John Wooden
If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes
mistakes. John Wooden.
The frame, the definition, is a type of context. And context, as we said before, determines the
meaning of things. There is no such thing as the view from nowhere, or from everywhere for that
matter. Our point of view biases our observation, consciously and unconsciously. You cannot
understand the view without the point of view. Noam Shpancer
We begin to learn wisely when we’re willing to see the world from other people’s perspective.
Toba Beta
Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry. It’s like the difference
between looking at a person and looking through their eyes. Diana Abu-Juber
There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labeled.
TS Eliot
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their
own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth. Simone de Beauvoir.
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. Tommy Smothers
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. C.S. Lewis
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. Samuel Johnson
You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be. Nigella
Lawson
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far
stronger links than common joys. Alphonse de Lamartine.
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process.
Keeping grief inside increases your pain. Anne Grant
Grief is a process, not a state. Anne Grant
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of
their character. MLK Jr.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. MLK Jr.
A man is but the product of his thoughts: what he thinks, he becomes. Gandhi
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace, to be real, must be unaffected by outside
circumstances. Gandhi
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
Gandhi
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. Gandhi
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment; full effort is full victory. Gandhi.
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it. Gandhi.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve
most of the world’s problems. Gandhi
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having. Gandhi.
There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self. Henri Frederic Amiel.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Artistotle.
Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. Abigail
Adams.
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the
fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t. Pete Seiger.
Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to change the world. Nelson
Mandela.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. Vince Lombardi.
It was impossible to get a conversation going: everybody was talking too much. Yogi Berra.
The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an
end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.
There are different rules for reading, for thinking and for talking. Writing blends all three of
them. Mason Cooley.
Life is a succession of moments; to live each one is to succeed. Corita Kent
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. Stephen Hawking
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. Ray
Bradbury