Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Friedrich Gauss

To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much more of my time than I like. Meanwhile I hope that the second time this expenditure of time will be much less, otherwise I would never be able to reconcile myself to it, even practical (astronomical) work must give far more satisfaction than if one brings up to B a couple more mediocre heads which otherwise would have stopped at A.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and the third lacks both preparation and ability. Such are the onera of a mathematical profession.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most of the few pupils who go a step further, and usually to keep the metaphor, remain in the process of gathering information, become only Halbwisser [one who has superficial knowledge of the subject], for the rarer talents do not want to have themselves educated by lecture courses, but train themselves. And with this thankless work the professor loses his precious time.

Agnes Smedley

Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.

Agnes Repplier

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

Agnes Repplier

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

Agnes Repplier

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

Alan K. Simpson

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

Alan K. Simpson

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

Diane Setterfield

What better place to kill time than a library?

David McCullough

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

David Strathairn

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

Jandy Nelson

Each time someone dies, a library burns.

Jane Austen

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy

Jane Austen

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

Janis Ian

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

Thomas Jefferson

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

Elie Wiesel

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

Byron Katie

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.

Callan McAuliffe

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

Charles Godfrey Leland

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.

bell hooks

The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.

Benjamin Disraeli

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

Bjork

Create a paradise anywhere you go.

Andrew Marvell

Two Paradises t'were in one, to live in Paradise alone.

William Shakespeare

Life... is a paradise to what we know of death.