Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of the five oranges as a numeral. This points in the direction of a definition of abstraction: when we abstract we voluntarily ignore details of a context, so that we can accomplish a goal.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

Cornel West

Education is soul crafting.

Colman McCarthy

I'd rather teach peace.

Colman McCarthy

Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence.

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.

David Letterman

Donald Trump had a university. Well, the state attorney general decided that the Donald Trump University was an unlicensed sham. And I thought, you know you're at a bad university when your commencement speaker is Whitey Bulger.

David Elkind

So while it is true that children are exposed to more information and a greater variety of experiences than were children of the past, it does not follow that they automatically become more sophisticated. We always know much more than we understand, and with the torrent of information to which young people are exposed, the gap between knowing and understanding, between experience and learning, has become even greater than it was in the past.

David Elkind

If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their own. The fact that they do not, despite their being surrounded by print, suggests that learning to read is not a spontaneous or simple skill.

David Barton

Recent decades clearly demonstrate that the more secular our Public Schools become the less successful they become academically.

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.