Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

The future of civilisation depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today.

Mark Baldassare

None of the propositions favored by the governor's administration are inspiring much passion,

Chris Evert

You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.

Diane Lane

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

Edgar Allan Poe

Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.

Eleanor Roosevelt

All of life is a constant education.

Elbert Hubbard

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Richard Lamm

He didn't work for money. He worked because he loved kids and education.

Steve Hall

Mandatory hunter education is really having an impact.

Maggie Gallagher

lifelong experience in marriage research, public education and advocacy.

Robert Hemenway

Let us use the evolution controversy to intensify our efforts to provide a world-class education to our students and to support the faculty who engage in the important research and teaching missions of our schools and universities,

Richard Crawford

Less than 1 percent of the prairie grass region remains unplowed, and this is one piece of that. So, not only is it important for the university to save it for education and research, but also so it can be a good, productive member of society.

Dara Duguay

Many corporations are starting to embed financial education for their employees.

Matt Rexroad

McPherson has also been a strong supporter of public education and has a record in recognizing issues in education.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.

John Probst

My experiences and education from Penn State were paramount to getting the offer from Ford.

Ludwig von Mises

The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.

Charles Peguy

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

Charles Peguy

A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.

Denis Diderot

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

Denis Diderot

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

Denis Diderot

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

Denis Diderot

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

Denis Diderot

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Dean Wareham

They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right.