Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Aleksandar Hemon

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

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.

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.

Calvin Coolidge

To place your name by gift or bequest in the keeping of an active educational institution is to...make a permanent contribution to the welfare of humanity.

Cesar Chavez

Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.

Cesar Chavez

Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.

Cesar Chavez

The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character.

Albert Bandura

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

Donald Knuth

...methods are more important than facts. The educational value of a problem given to a student depends mostly on how often the thought processes that are invoked to solve it will be helpful in later situations. It has little to do with how useful the answer to the problem may be. On the other hand, a good problem must also motivate the students; they should be interested in seeing the answer. Since students differ so greatly, I cannot expect everyone to like the problems that please me.

Colin Powell

America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don't finish high school, 50 percent of minorities don't finish high school.

Douglas Hyde

As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.

Most of us are visual learners. Some of us are auditor learners – we learn by hearing. Many of us are kinesthetic learners. We learn by doing, touching, feeling. I have found … that we need an educational model that is current, that meets the need of our students. America must understand that she needs Muslims.

Andre Previn

If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you.

Alice Waters

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

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.

Aesop

Appearances may be deceiving.

Aesop

Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing.

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.

Donald Barthelme

The important thing is the educational experience itself — how to survive it.

Douglas Wilson

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

Dr. Seuss

The more you read, the more things you will know.