Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

William Whewell

According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective.

Samuel Smiles

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

Richard Francis Burton

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

Samuel Johnson

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

Samuel Johnson

All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In the same manner, all power, of whatever sort, is of itself desirable. A man would not submit to learn to hem a ruffle, of his wife, or his wife's maid; but if a mere wish could attain it, he would rather wish to be able to hem a ruffle.

Samuel Johnson

To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and he is by no means to be accounted useless or idle, who has stored his mind with acquired knowledge, and can detail it occasionally to others who have less leisure or weaker abilities.

Khalil Gibran

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.

Lynn Johnston

I had a terrible marriage the first time around because I had no self-confidence, even though I had tremendous self-confidence.

Napoleon Hill

The development of self-confidence starts with the elimination of this demon called fear.

Napoleon Hill

Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.

Eric Alterman

Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence.

Katori Hall

Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.

Leonardo da Vinci

When you are alone you are all your own.

Thomas A. Edison

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

Wally Lamb

I love the most the students with troubled lives.

Mila Kunis

I was actually a pretty good student. My problem was that I didn't know what I wanted to study.

James Remar

James Remar is a student of life.

Louis Menand

You have to have students wanting to take the courses, otherwise you're not going, they're not going to be very effective.

Eric Hoffer

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.

Marion Ross

The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.

P. J. O'Rourke

B students work for C students. A students teach.

Oliver Goldsmith

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

Kenny G

Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself.