
It's not that I'm so smart. It's just that I stay with problems longer.|Albert Einstein||learning

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education|Albert Einstein||education

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.|Albert Einstein||

Two things inspire me to awe--the stary heavens and the moral universe within.|Albert Einstein||

I prefer silent vice to ostentation virtue.|Albert Einstein||

Only two things are infinite. the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.|Albert Einstein||

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.|Albert Einstein||

Teaching should be such that what is offered is percieved as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.|Albert Einstein||

It is the supreme art of a teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.|Albert Einstein||

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as the judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.|Albert Einstein||

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.|Albert Einstein||

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.|Albert Einstein||

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.|Albert Einstein||

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.|Albert Einstein||

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.|Albert Einstein||

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.|Albert Einstein||

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.|Albert Einstein||

Peace can not be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.|Albert Einstein||

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.|A. J. Musti||

As long as armies exist, any serious conflict will lead to war.|Albert Einstein||

You can not simultaineously prevent and prepare for war.|Albert Einstein||

Warfare can not be humanized. It can only be abolished.|Albert Einstein||

The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service.|Albert Einstein||

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.|Albert Einstein||

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism--how passionately I hate them!|Albert Einstein||

The art of living is in making the right mistakes.|Stefan Schulz||

Winners lose more often than losers.|Anonymous||

Wise are they that know they know not.|Socrates||

Free and responsible government by popular consent just can't exist without an informed public.|Bill Moyers||democracy
Enliven imagination, stand for truth, feel responsibility.|Rudolf Steiner||

Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?|Shirdi Sai Baba||
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.|Harvey Mackay||

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed.|Booker T Washington||

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.|Alfred N. Whitehead||

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to look after them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.|John Steinbeck||

You can't talk your way out of a situation you behave yourself into.|Steven Covey||

Catch a man a fish feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and feed him for life.|Chinese Proverb||

Better to go home and make a net, than dive for fish at random.|Chinese Proverb||

I keep six honest servingmen, (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When, And How and Where and Who.|Rudyard Kipling||

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than the giant himself.|Didacus Stella, circa CE 60||
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.|Isaac Newton||

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.|Samuel Johnson||

The most important thing in life is not to capitalise on your successes any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.|William Bolitho||

It is with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.|Antoine de SaintExupery, from The Little Prince||

Everybody can get angry that's easy. But getting angry at the right person, with the right intensity, at the right time, for the right reason and in the right way that's hard.|Aristotle||

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.|Samuel Jefferson||

Seek first to understand, and then to be understood.|Steven Covey||

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.|Leonardo Da Vinci||

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.|Confucius||

When you are thirsty, it's too late to dig a well.|Japanese Proverb||

The future of work consists of learning a living.|Marshall McLuhan||

The best time to fix the roof is when the sun is shining.|John F. Kennedy||

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and dance; one cannot fly into flying.|Friedrich Nietzsche||

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you.|Friedrich Nietzsche||

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.|Linus Pauling||

I praise loudly. I blame softly.|Catherine the Great||

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans, unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.|Karl Rove, Republican political advisor||

One does not discover new lands without consenting to leave sight of the shore for a very long time.|Andre Gide||

If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive. If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred."|Bhagavad Gita||

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.|Edward Abbey||ecology, economy

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.|J. Krishnamurti||learning, education, competition

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.|Carl Jung||

First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.|Epectetus||

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it.|Maya Angelou||

It's never too late to be what you might have been.|George Eliot||

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.|Ralph Waldo Emerson||
When people show you who they are, believe them.|Maya Angelou||

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.|Louisa May Alcott||

It's not just the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.|Sir Edmond Hillary||

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.|Ralph Waldo Emerson||

It's not accident or time or forture that keeps you from the things you want, but rather, your own thinking.|Lillian Hellman||

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that is necessary for believing in it.|Ugo Betti||

I finally figured out the best reason to be alive is to  enjoy it.|Rita Mae Brown||

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.|Tacitus||war, peace, empire

We could have saved a lot more of our people if only they had known that they were slaves.|Harriet Tubman||freedom, slavery, knowledge

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.|Ralph Waldo Emerson||

Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great [person] is unique.|Ralph Waldo Emerson||

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.|Ralph Waldo Emerson||

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.|Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)||

A man's character is his fate.|Heraclitus (540 BCE - 480 BCE)||

Things do not change; we change.|Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)||

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.|Plato (427 BCE - 347 BCE)||

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.|Alec Bourne||

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.|Anatole France (1844 - 1924)||

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.|Aristotle (384 BCE - 322 BCE)||

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.|Gail Godwin||

Only the educated are free.|Epictetus (55 CE- 135 CE)||

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.|H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)||

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.|James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)||

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.|Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)||

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.|Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)||

It is only the ignorant who despise education.|Publilius Syrus (~100 BCE)||

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.|Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)||

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.|Will Durant (1885 - 1981)||

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.|Albert Einstein||

Bodily exercize, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.|Plato (428-348 BCE)||

When government operates in secret, the ability of the public to hold the government accountable is imperiled.|U.S. Rep. Henry A. Waxman||

Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?|US President Woodrow Wilson||

Forgive them, for they know not what they do.|Jesus of Nasareth||

I hold that a little revolution now and then is a good thing.|Thomas Jefferson||

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.|Benjamin Disraeli||

It is more difficult to organize peace than to win a war, but the fruits of war will be lost of the peace is not well organized.|Aristotle||

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.|US President Abraham Lincoln||

I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our creator - I am doing the Lord's work.|Adolf Hitler||

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.|John F. Kennedy||peace

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of family feud.|Hellen Keller||war, peace, patriotism

That's why we're now promoting nuclear energy. It makes sense for this country to use safe, clean nuclear power.|George W. Bush||environment

I wouldn't call it looting, I would call it survival that was happening.|Corey Nixon (Survivor of the 2005 flood of New Orleans)||

People were frustrated watching helicopters fly overhead without stopping to pick anyone up, and sometimes people felt threatened rather than comforted by police patrolling with M-16s.|Corey Nixon (2005 Hurricane survivor)||


The Nicaraguan Contras are the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers.|Ronald Reagan||

Our nation must undergo a radical revolution of values beginning with a shift from a &quot;thing-oriented&quot; society to a &quot;person-oriented&quot; society.|Martin Luther King, Jr. 1967||

The war is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit. In the words of the late John F. Kennedy, 'Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.' |Martin Luther King, Jr. 1967||

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.|Mahatma Gandhi||
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.|Mahatma Gandhi||

Patriotism is egoism writ large; it's group egoism.|Karen Armstrong||

Don't take refuge in delusion.|Karen Armstrong||

If, as they claim, it were only Western liberalism that we hated, we'd have bombed Amsterdam or Sweden.|Osama bin Laden||

They are better people than those who sent them to war.|Doug Nelson, truthout.org||

After carefully examining the evidence, I've become convinced that the president's party mounted a massive, coordinated campaign to subvert the will of the people in 2004.|John F. Kennedy, Jr.||
