Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Boucher

The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.

Woodrow Wilson

I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.

Woodrow Wilson

The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

William James

To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions, or distinctions, or points of view. But while these special ideas are being added, the rest of your knowledge stands still, and only gradually will you line up your previous opinions with the novelties I am trying to instill, and to modify to some slight degree their mass. ..Your mind in such processes is strained, and sometimes painfully so, between its older beliefs and the novelties which experience brings along.

William James

There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire, of deliberation, etc., that constantly pass and repass, and that constitute our inner life.

Sai Baba

Education must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one's own strength.

Sai Baba

Education should serve to enlarge the vision and broaden the outlook of the people.

Sai Baba

Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.

Sai Baba

Education confers humility, endows one with the authority to command, that will entitle one to affluence. With the help of charity and compassion this affluence can be made fruitful, and by this means, happiness in this world and peace in the next can be won.

Billy Sunday

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

G. H. Hardy

I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a good many quite respectable mathematicians, are contemptuous about proof. I have heard Professor Eddington, for example, maintain that proof, as pure mathematicians understand it, is really quite uninteresting and unimportant, and that no one who is really certain that he has found something good should waste his time looking for proof.

Felipe Alou

Any time you put Matheny in, that's good managing.

Jeff Garlin

If you're gonna be a maniac, pyro's not a good maniac.

David Ogilvy

I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners.

Ronan Farrow

Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

Robert MacNeil

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

Samuel Johnson

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

Walter Raleigh

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

Cassandra Clare

[Magnus] reminded himself of his manners, and bowed. "Charmed," he said. "Or whatever effect would please you best, I'm sure.

Randall Jarrell

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Joseph Cook

There is a certain physiognomy in manners.