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“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
-Aristotle
“Each day is the scholar of yesterday.”
-Publilius Syrus
“A scholar without diligence is a lover without money”
-Muslih-uddin Sadi
“The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr”
-Muhammad
“A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.”
-Goethe
“A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.”
-William Hazlitt
“To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar”
-Samuel Johnson
“When a scholar goes to seek out a bride he should take along an ignoramus as an expert”
-The Talmud
“A scholar always treads on the path of righteousness and as result becomes successful.”
-Rig Veda
“Be happy. It's one way of being wise.”
-Sidonie Gabrielle
“The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.”
-Oscar Wilde
“A true friend stabs you in the front.”
-Oscar Wilde
“Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
-Oscar Wilde
“I don't want to earn my living; I want to live.”
-Oscar Wilde
“I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“Every generation needs a new revolution.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong”
-Benjamin Franklin
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
-Benjamin Franklin.
“I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.”
-Epicurus
“The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.”
-Epicurus
“Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old”
-Epicurus
“What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are”
-Epictetus
“Only the educated are free.”
-Epictetus
“Men should strive to think much and know little.”
-Democritus
“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion”
-Democritus
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
-Plato
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“Belief means not wanting to know what is true”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”
-Voltaire
“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
-Voltaire
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it”
-Albert Einstein
“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”
-Sandra Carey
“Information is not knowledge.”
-Albert Einstein
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
-George Bernard Shaw
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.”
-George Bernard Shaw
“Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.”
-George Bernard Shaw
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”
-Confucius
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.”
-Confucius
“Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
-Aristotle
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
-Aristotle
“All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.”
-Juvenal
“Knowledge is the food of the soul.”
-Plato
“This I know - that I know nothing.”
-Plato
“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.”
-Robert Quillen
“My education was interrupted only by my schooling”
-Winston Churchill
“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
-Winston Churchill
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”
-Albert Einstein
“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
-Helen Keller
“Every library is an arsenal”
-Robert G. Ingersoll
“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life”
-Plato
“You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.”
-Tom Brokaw
“Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.”
-John Dewey
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me”
-C.S. Lewis