Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elie Wiesel

I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.

Elie Wiesel

There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps.

Edward R. Murrow

I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.

Edward R. Murrow

This instrument [radio] can teach. It can illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it's nothing but wires and lights in a box.

Jim Jeffords

We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond.

Bruno Bettelheim

Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to "real" people and everyday events--knew what intellectual experience made for true humanity. He suggested that the future citizens of his ideal republic begin their literary education with the telling of myths, rather than with mere facts or so-called rational teachings.

Brewster Kahle

This (scanning project) is our chance to one-up the Greeks! It is really possible with the technology of today, not tomorrow. We can provide all the works of humankind to all the people of the world. It will be an achievement remembered for all time, like putting a man on the moon.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

Ben Parr

Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

Barbara Hershey

We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.

Barbara Johnson

Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be unconscious of - others? Does the educational system exist in order to promulgate knowledge, or is its main function rather to universalize a society’s tacit agreement about what it has decided it does not and cannot know?

Barbara Jordan

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

Barbara Jordan

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Barbara Kingsolver

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from.

Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindreds of the earth, that haply the dissensions that divide it may, through the power of the Most Great Name, be blotted out from its face, and all mankind become the upholders of one Order, and the inhabitants of one City....

Ashley Montagu

In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.

Bernie Siegel

It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents, teachers, and other authority figures who should know better from their experience. Information is about facts. Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.

Bruce Springsteen

We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright.

Brian Tracy

Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to customers.

Brian Tracy

Offer your customers a long-term relationship, then do everything possible to build and maintain it.

Brian Tracy

Customers today want the very most and the very best for the very least amount of money, and on the best terms. Only the individuals and companies that provide absolutely excellent products and services at absolutely excellent prices will survive.

Brad Henry

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

Jane Hamilton

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Jane Haddam

Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.

Jane Jacobs

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

Jane Byrne

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

Jane Goodall

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

Kenneth Edmonds

The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician.

Elizabeth Warren

A good education is a foundation for a better future.

We're always sharing the importance of education with them. It's plain - in order to succeed in life, you've got to get an education.

Education is not Democrat versus Republican. It's about doing the right things for the right reason for our kids.