Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Fuller

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

Kin Hubbard

University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.

Michelle Alexander

Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service - are suddenly legal. As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights, and largely less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

Michelangelo

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Michelangelo

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Ray Bradbury

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

Randy Newman

College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.

Randy Pausch

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

Eric Hoffer

To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.

The focus of the event is education and fun.

Tim Carter

You don't have to be a construction expert. But you do need a reasonable level of education to know if the job is being done right.

James Cash Penney

Every great business is built on friendship.

James Anthony Froude

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.

Henry Anatole Grunwald

Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic? The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter.

Henry Adams

All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.

Henry Adams

Education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard, but by choice, on the lines of force that attract their world. What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

Henry Adams

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Adams

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

Henry Adams

They know enough who know how to learn.

Henry A. Kissinger

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Helen Hayes

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Henry Giroux

Problems become privatized and removed from larger social issues. This is one task, connecting the personal problems to larger social issues that progressive leftist intellectuals have failed to take on as a major political and educational project.

Hector Berlioz

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Hector Hugh Munro

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

Henry David Thoreau

As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting a compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them.

Henry David Thoreau

What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?

Henry David Thoreau

When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.

Henry David Thoreau

The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?

Henry David Thoreau

I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.

Henry David Thoreau

Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.

Henry David Thoreau

I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to the last codicil and letter. They rule this world, and the living are but their executors. Such foundation too have our lectures and our sermons, commonly.

Mary Webb

It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.

Patricia Hill Collins

The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.