Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chanakya

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Chanakya

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

Charles Baudelaire

The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much money bestowed on men without souls and without education.

Charles Schumer

I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.

Charles Schumer

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

Charles M. Schulz

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.

Charles M. Schulz

A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.

Charles Handy

We learn by reflecting on what has happened. The process seldom works in reverse, although most educational processes assume that it does. We hope that we can teach people how to live before they live, or how to manage before they manage.

Lyndon B. Johnson

We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.

Thomas Jefferson

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Madeleine Albright

The process of education in the oldest profession in the world is like any other educational process, in that it requires time andeffort and patience; it can only be acquired by taking one step at a time, though the steps become accelerated after the first few.

Madeleine Albright

We must be authors of the history of our age.

William Shakespeare

I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now.

William Shakespeare

Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks.

Mario Cuomo

I concentrated on a lot of things, so very few people saw me as an education governor, an infrastructure governor.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

The ways in which readers encounter and relate to information is dramatically influenced by their education as well as their awareness of the pitfalls relating to the information source.

Natassia Malthe

Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.

Nicholas Kristof

Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

Bernard Marcus

One of the things which make any company successful, in particular the Home Depot, was that we understood and catered to the customer. If it didn't sell, it didn't make a difference what we thought or our research told us. They told us if it was successful by buying it or not.

Benjamin Hoff

The Eeyore Educational System sees childhood as a waste of time, a luxury that society cannot afford . . . Put children in school at the earliest age possible; load them down with homework; take away their time, their creativity, their play, their power; then plug them into machines.

Bob Marley

You have to be someone.

Bill Watterson

I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.

Bennie Thompson

Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

Bennett Cerf

One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C.N. Peac, is that once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come upon the little-read school boy.

Bill Gates

These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation.

Bill Gates

It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.

Bill Gates

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'

Bill Gates

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

Bob Taft

A dynamic economy begins with a good education.

Bob Taft

We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

Therefore re-education is required to restore the perpetrators rational thinking.

Charles William Eliot

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

Charles William Eliot

Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.