Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Hamilton

Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements . . . are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations.

Alexander Hamilton

It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions with which they were continually agitated, and at the rapid succession of revolutions by which they were kept in a state of perpetual vibration between the extremes of tyranny and anarchy . . . great improvement . . . were either not known at all, or imperfectly known to the ancients.

Adlai E. Stevenson

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

Alexander Pope

Education forms the common mind.

Alexander Pope

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Alexander Pope

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

Alexander Pope

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

Alexander Pope

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

Albert Shanker

There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Benjamin Disraeli

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.

Calvin Coolidge

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Richard G. Scott

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.

Ayn Rand

Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.

Diana Oblinger

While the practice is not necessarily widespread, there are a lot of them,

Theodore L. Cuyler

One day of good preaching is no match for six days of inconsistent practice. God will never honor His church with complete success until it completely honors Him.

Theodore Bikel

While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.

Theaster Gates

All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.

Margaret Sanger

Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.

Kevin VanDam

In practice in 2007 I had a limit that probably would've weighed almost 30 pounds.

Matthew Henry

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

Maya Angelou

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.