Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what "demonstrate" means, and went back to my law studies.

Ani Difranco

I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss.

Ani Difranco

A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.

Amy Klobuchar

To criminally prosecute a child not old enough to go to the school prom makes no sense, you get much more cooperation from a victim if you give them a safe harbor, a place to live, job training, an education.

Allen Klein

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

Allan Sherman

Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear.

Allan Bloom

An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.

Allan Bloom

The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.

Allan Bloom

Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art....

Allen West

A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.

Aesop

Appearances may be deceiving.

Aesop

If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all.

Aesop

Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Jason Calacanis

When it comes to education, there is no one site you can point to that you can say, 'They speak to the world, and that is the site where you go to learn.'

We've found that many people neglect to renew their anti-virus when an upgrade comes around, because they think they can do without it. This education effort is aimed at showing them the little steps they can take to protect themselves.

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.

Karen Hughes

I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal.

Jane Addams

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Jane Austen

A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

Janet Jackson

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

Education is not Democrat versus Republican. It's about doing the right things for the right reason for our kids.

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

Mary Wortley Montagu

We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.

Susan B. Anthony

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

Brian Eno

So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing become a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.

Boris Nemtsov

This is my country. The Russian people are in bit of trouble. Russian court doesn't work. Russian education decline every year. I believe that Russia has a chance to be free. Has a chance. It's difficult, but we must do it.

Booker T. Washington

Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.

Booker T. Washington

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Bobby Scott

The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.

Bobby Scott

So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.

Bobby Scott

Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.

Bobby Scott

Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.

Bobby Scott

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.