Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel de Montaigne

Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]

Michel de Montaigne

Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles.

Michel de Montaigne

For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.

Michel de Montaigne

Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.

Michel de Montaigne

'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.

Michel de Montaigne

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount, this fundamental concern is carried forward. The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance. Today the mass of the people are uninformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time.

...knowledge is the cause of human progress.

To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God.

Abdul Kalam

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

Abdul Kalam

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

Jeffrey Gitomer

The biggest reason that positive endings don't happen is because employees are trained on policies and rules rather than principles.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Biggest question: Isn't it really 'customer helping' rather than customer service? And wouldn't you deliver better service if you thought of it that way?

Jeffrey Gitomer

Customers will want to talk to you if they believe you can solve their problems.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Memorable customer service can only take place in a human-to-human situation.

Jim Bush

There are many who subscribe to the convention that service is a business cost, but our data demonstrates that superior service is an investment that can help drive business growth. Investing in quality talent, and ensuring they have the skills, training and tools that enable them to empathize and actively listen to customers are central to providing consistently excellent service experiences.

James C. Collins

In determing "the right people," the good-to-great companies placed greater weight on character attributes than on specific educational background, practical skills, specialized knowledge, or work experience.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary confinement

Jada Pinkett Smith

I definitely want to make it very clear to everybody that the educational institution that we have, the school that Will and I have, is not a Scientology school. And that, you know, I know there's been, you know, a lot of buzz around that idea and that it is not my desire to, you know, teach Scientology at all.

Gary Vaynerchuk

I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.

Gary Vaynerchuk

It's very logical: There is proven ROI in doing whatever you can to turn your customers into advocates for your brand or business. The way to create advocates is to offer superior customer service.

Gary Vaynerchuk

I attract a crowd, not because I'm an extrovert or I'm over the top or I'm oozing with charisma. It's because I care.

Evelyn Glennie

Scotland has never ceased to amaze the world with its forward vision, bold action and great educational institutions. Nothing makes me more proud than to promote this wonderful land with all its richness and diversity wherever I go.

Evelyn Ashford

Now, I talk to athletes who answer questions with a 'yeah'. I realize I used to do that. Or they answer very quickly and you stand there trying to come up with another question to ask. I've seen both sides and it's been very educational.

George Washington Carver

Education is understanding relationships.

George Washington Carver

I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.

George Washington Carver

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

Garth Nix

Bee stings are very educational

Henry Louis Gates

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

Henri Frederic Amiel

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

Helen Keller

I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted and free human beings. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name.

Helen Keller

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.