- Much have I learned from my
teachers, more from my colleagues, but most from my students.--
Talmud
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- Never read a book that is not a
year old.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- It is the mark of an educated mind
to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of
the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an
approximation is possible.-- Aristotle
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- Any fool can criticize, condemn,
and complain, and most fools do.-- Benjamin Franklin
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- Art is a higher type of knowledge
than experience.-- Aristotle
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- It is better to fail in originality
than to succeed in imitation.-- Herman Melville
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- Ideas must work through the brains
and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.-- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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- The roots of education are bitter,
but the fruit is sweet.-- Aristotle
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- If ignorance is bliss, why aren't
more people happy?-- Anonymous
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- A learned blockhead is a greater
one than an ignorant one.-- Benjamin Franklin
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- There are books of which the backs
and covers are by far the best parts.-- Charles Dickens
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- If I cannot brag of knowing
something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.-- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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- The world itself rests upon the
breath of the children in our schools.-- Talmud
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- Before the beginning of great
brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins
something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.-- from the I
Ching
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- The chief function of the body is
to carry the brain around.-- Thomas Alva Edison
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- Chance favors only the prepared
mind.-- Louis Pasteur
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- Choose the life that is most
useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.-- Francis Bacon
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- The covers of this book are too far
apart.-- Ambrose Bierce
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- There is then creative reading as
well as creative writing.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Curiosity is one of the permanent
and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.-- Samuel Johnson
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- An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.-- Oscar Wilde
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- All men by nature desire
knowledge.-- Aristotle
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- All truths are easy to understand
once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.-- Galileo
Galilei
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- So much of our time is preparation,
so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each
man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.-- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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- Education is an admirable thing,
but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is
worth knowing can be taught.-- Oscar Wilde
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- It is the mark of an educated mind
to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.-- Aristotle
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- A teacher affects eternity; he can
never tell where his influence stops.-- Henry Brooks Adams
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- Experience is the hardest kind of
teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward. --
Anonymous
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- He who asks is a fool for five
minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.-- Chinese
Proverb
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- Without knowing the force of words,
it is impossible to know men.-- Confucius
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- The great difficulty in education
is to get experience out of ideas.-- George Santayana
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- What greater or better gift can we
offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?-- Cicero
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- No man has a good enough memory to
make a successful liar.-- Abraham Lincoln
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- The aim of a college education is
to teach you to know a good man when you see one.-- William James
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- The only lesson history has taught
us is that man has not yet learned anything from history.--
Anonymous
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- A hunch is creativity trying to
tell you something.-- Anonymous
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- If you drop gold and books, pick up
the books first, and then the gold.-- Jewish Proverb
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- Nothing in education is so
astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of
inert facts.-- Henry Adams
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- I do not believe in the collective
wisdom of individual ignorance.-- Thomas Carlyle
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- All intellectual improvement arises
from leisure.-- Samuel Johnson
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- He who ceases to learn cannot
adequately teach.-- Anonymous
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- If a man empties his purse into his
head, no one can take it from him.-- Benjamin Franklin
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- The ladder of success doesn't care
who climbs it.-- Frank Tyger
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- Learning is achieved only in
company.-- Talmud
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- You must not refuse to lend a book
even to an enemy, for the cause of learning will suffer.-- Jewish
Proverb
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- A library is an arsenal of
liberty.-- Anonymous
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- Life is like a piano...what you get
out of it depends on how you play it.-- Anonymous
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- A little learning is a dangerous
thing.-- Alexander Pope
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- What he doesn't know would make a
library that anybody would be proud of.-- Anonymous
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- When I get a little money, I buy
books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.-- Desiderius
Erasmus
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- I don't think much of a man who is
not wiser today than he was yesterday.-- Abraham Lincoln
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- The man who doesn't read good books
has no advantage over the man who can't read them.-- Mark Twain
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- When brains are needed, muscles
won't help.-- Anonymous
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- Never mistake knowledge for wisdom.
One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.--
Sandra Carey
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- Be not astonished at new ideas, for
it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be
true because it is not accepted by many.-- Spinoza
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- Life has no rehearsals, only
performances.-- Anonymous
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- Confidence in nonsense is a
requirement for the creative process.-- Anonymous
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- Those that know, do. Those that
understand, teach.-- Aristotle
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- There is only one success - to be
able to spend your life in your own way.-- Christopher Morley
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- It's hard enough to remember my
opinions without also remembering my reasons for them!-- Friedrich
Nietzsche
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- There is a necessary limit to our
achievement, but none to our attempt.-- Phillips Brooks
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- Practice is the best of all
instructors.-- Publilius Syrus
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- The person who properly disciplines
himself to do those things that he does not especially care to do,
becomes successful.-- Frank Leahy
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- Education is the best provision for
old age.-- Aristotle
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- To read without reflecting is like
eating without digesting.-- Edmunde Burke
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- The pure and simple truth is rarely
pure and never simple.-- Oscar Wilde
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- A single conversation with a wise
man is better than ten years of study.-- Chinese Proverb
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- A single fact can spoil a good
argument.-- Anonymous
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- If you can read this, thank a
teacher.-- Anonymous Teacher
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- The human brain is like a railroad
freight car - guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often
running empty.-- Anonymous
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- Man is still the most extraordinary
computer of all.-- John F. Kennedy
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- If everybody's thinking alike,
somebody isn't thinking.-- Anonymous
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- Some people will never learn
anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too
soon.-- Alexander Pope
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- There is nothing new under the sun
but there are lots of old things we don't know. -- Ambrose Bierce
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- When a book and a head collide and
there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book? -- Georg
Christoph Lichtenberg
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- Wise men don't need advice. Fools
won't take it.-- Benjamin Franklin
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