Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dean Koontz

I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.

Dean Kamen

Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.

Aristotle

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

Aristotle

It is no easy task to be good.

Aristotle

We must become just be doing just acts.

Aristotle

In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

Aristotle

Human beings are curious by nature.

Aristotle

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

Aristotle

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

Albert Einstein

I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.

Alfred North Whitehead

Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.

Albert Einstein

If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.

Albert Einstein

Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.

Albert Einstein

... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continually threatened with burial by the shifting sand. The hands of service must ever be at work, in order that the marble continue to lastingly shine in the sun. To these serving hands mine shall also belong.

One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.

Adolf Hitler

In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation's moral and material health. The whole educational system, theater, film, literature, the press and broadcasting - all these will be used as a means to this end.

Adam Braun

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

Alexander Turney Stewart

You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back.

Aaron Levie

The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.

A. J. Muste

Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.

Aleksandar Hemon

Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

Cornel West

Education is soul crafting.

Colman McCarthy

I'd rather teach peace.

David Mamet

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.

Condoleezza Rice

[I]t is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why you have been given so much.

Ludwig von Mises

Governments, political parties, pressure groups, and the bureaucrats of the educational hierarchy think they can avoid the inevitable consequences of unsuitable measures by boycotting and silencing the independent economists. But truth persists and works, even if nobody is left to utter it.

Alice James

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Alice Childress

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.

Albert Bandura

If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.

Alex Haley

When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.

E. Franklin Frazier

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

Donna Karan

I think we're on a journey....It was very easy to write about my past in my book, but writing about the present is all a new chapter. I hope that people find this journey fascinating, informative and educational.