Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Pope

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Alexander Pope

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

Alex Haley

When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.

There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

E. Franklin Frazier

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

Donna Karan

I think we're on a journey....It was very easy to write about my past in my book, but writing about the present is all a new chapter. I hope that people find this journey fascinating, informative and educational.

Donald Barthelme

The important thing is the educational experience itself — how to survive it.

Duke of Wellington

Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

Duke of Wellington

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

Douglas Wilson

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

Dr. Seuss

The more you read, the more things you will know.

Dr. Seuss

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

Dr. Seuss

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The teachers of small children are paid more than they were, but still far less than the importance of their work deserves, and they are still regarded by the unenlightened majority as insignificant compared to those who impart information to older children and adolescents, a class of pupils which, in the nature of things, is vastly more able to protect its own individuality from the character of the teacher.

Dorothy L. Sayers

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Donovan Bailey

Always educate yourself.

Donald Rumsfeld

Whatever new threats and challenges may emerge, our nation will be able to face them squarely, deal with them, and yet allow our people to continue to live free and unafraid. The decisions you make, the courage and creativity you bring to your responsibilities, will determine America's future. Liberty and our way of life are fragile gifts - their care is in your hands. We thank you for stepping forward to shoulder that immense responsibility. Your country is grateful, and proud of each of you.

Don Henley

Johnny can get down and Johnny can throw up, but Johnny can't read.

Don Marquis

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Dalai Lama

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

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.

David O. McKay

True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.

David Ogilvy

Many of the greatest creations of man have been inspired by the desire to make money...If Oxford undergraduates were paid for their work, I would have performed miracles of scholarship and become Regius Professor of Modern History.

David McCord

Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through door on door; find unexpected keys to things locked up beyond imaginings. What might you be, perhaps become, because one book is somewhere? Some wise delver into wisdom, wit, and wherewithal has written it. True books will venture, dare you out, whisper secrets, maybe shout across the gloom to you in need, who hanker for a book to read.

David Mamet

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.

Danny Bonaduce

I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.

Condoleezza Rice

[I]t is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why you have been given so much.

Dan Fogelberg

The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next.

Dan Fogelberg

Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?

Cyril Connolly

Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.