Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education should be as broad as man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Lily Tomlin

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Les Brown

you don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.

Lenny Bruce

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.

Lee Iacocca

If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.

Lee Iacocca

In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.

Laura Ashley

We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

When I look at founders and CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Brian Chesky at Airbnb and Sebastian Thrun at Udacity, these are companies that are creating extraordinary social good and extraordinary economic and educational empowerment, all within with context of a for-profit model.

Laura Bush

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

Larry Bird

The nature of competition is such that any number of people invariably have their eyes on the same prize you do. Recognize your assets and employ them to the best of your ability.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

Tallulah Bankhead

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

Tony Robbins

To me, money is a vehicle; it's a tool. I could use it as a weapon to destroy things or money can create-you can create an opportunity, you can create a charity, you can create things for your family, you can go do something for your family that nobody else would ever do. You can create educational opportunities, you can feed people overseas. And there's a tremendous leverage with money, or you can destroy people with it.

Tony Benn

Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part in shaping British democracy than most constitutional lawyers, political commentators, historians or statesmen have ever cared to admit. Direct action in a democratic society is fundamentally an educational exercise.

Roy H. Williams

The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.

Ron Silver

I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit

Susan Orlean

I approach stories as a private educational enterprise: I want to learn about something. I teach myself through research, reporting, and thinking, and then, when I feel like I know the story, I tell it to readers.

Susan Orlean

States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated.

Susan George

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

Susan B. Anthony

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

Sugata Mitra

We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. It’s not about making learning happen; it’s about letting it happen.

Stuart Wilde

Of course, you don't have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree sets you back, for it stuffs you into tick-tock [the daily grind of work], and perhaps that stifles your creative mind. But the fact is that many millionaires have few educational qualifications of any kind at all. However, they still have knowledge. The difference is, they have knowledge they can sell, and others have the "common knowledge" of tick-tock, which isn't worth as much, if anything at all.

Sting

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.

Stevie Wonder

Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.

Steve Irwin

I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything.