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.

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Laurence Sterne

But mark, madam, we live amongst riddles and mysteries--the most obvious things, which come in our way, have dark sides, which thequickest sight cannot penetrate into; and even the clearest and most exalted understandings amongst us find ourselves puzzled and at a loss in almost every cranny of nature's works.

Joan Raymond

You can't put a price on the institutional knowledge that our workers have.

Joan Raymond

You can't put a price on loyalty to the city. You can't put a price on pride at work. . . . You can't put a price on the institutional knowledge that our workers have.

Mark Twain

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Rick Jones

All we know is what we got from last year's club. Our knowledge of them is very limited.

Roger May

All I know, with regard to the car, is that he doesn't have ownership of the car. I do not have any knowledge of the investigation at all. Anything else would be pure speculation.

Northrop Frye

The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.

Marshall McLuhan

As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved.