Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Hyde

As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.

David Bach

Financial education needs to become a part of our national curriculum and scoring systems so that it's not just the rich kids that learn about money.. it's all of us.

David Lodge

Four times, under our educational rules, the human pack is shuffled and cut - at eleven-plus, sixteen-plus, eighteen-plus and twenty-plus - and happy is he who comes top of the deck on each occasion, but especially the last. This is called Finals, the very name of which implies that nothing of importance can happen after it.

David Hawkins

You can memorize your way through a labyrinth if it is simple enough and you have the time and urge to escape. But the learning is of no use for the next time when the exit will be differently placed.

Confucius

Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.

Confucius

The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.

Confucius

Only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge. Being dissatisfied with his own knowledge, one then realizes that the trouble lies with himself, and realizing the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge one then feels stimulated to improve himself. Therefore, it is said, "the processes of teaching and learning stimulate one another."

Confucius

Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.

Confucius

Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

Confucius

Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.

Confucius

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it

Confucius

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Confucius

Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?

Confucius

Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.

Confucius

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

Confucius

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Daniel Webster

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

Dave Lombardo

I'm really not into the educational aspect of performing. It's not in me.

Dalai Lama

When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.

Dolores Huerta

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it's an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

Derek Sivers

The single most important thing is to make people happy. If you are making people happy, as a side effect, they will be happy to open up their wallets and pay you.

Derek Sivers

Customer service is the new marketing.

Deepak Chopra

You give to the world your greatest gift when you're being yourself.

Deepak Chopra

When the material, psychological and spiritual dimensions are brought into balance, life becomes whole, and this union brings feelings of comfort and security.

Deepak Chopra

Life is set up to bring you every needed situation in its own right time.

Amartya Sen

The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake. They expand our freedom to lead the lives we have reason to value, and these elementary capabilities are of importance on their own

Amartya Sen

we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure that sectarian schooling does not convert education into a prison, rather than being a passport to the wide world.

Anna Quindlen

There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have been seen as the great leveler, the authentic melting pot. That, today, is nonsense. In his scathing study of the nation's public school system entitled "Savage Inequalities," Jonathan Kozol made manifest the truth: that we have a system that discriminates against the poor in everything from class size to curriculum.

Anna Quindlen

I went to a women's college. ... it was a little like learning to swim while holding on to the side of the pool; I didn't learn the arm movements until after I graduated, but by that time I was one hell of a kicker.

Angelina Grimke

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.

Alfred Austin

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.