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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
- Edward Everett
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Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
The highest result of education is tolerance.
- Helen Keller
The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers,
but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw material,
but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant
and for the soul of the child.
- Carl Jung
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children
a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude to me is more important than facts.
It is more important than the past, than education, than money,
than circumstances, than failures, than success,
than what other people think or say or do.
It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill.
It will make or break a company ... a church ... a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day
regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
We cannot change our past ...
we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
And so it is with you ...
we are in charge of our attitudes.
- Charles Swindoll
What usually happens in the educational process is
that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed
and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature
they have lost their innate capabilities.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Long ago men fought and died for their faith;
but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, -
the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren
and their rights of conscience.
- Helen Keller
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
Education is not the answer to the question.
Education is the means to the answer to all questions.
- William Allin
There comes a time in every man's education
when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance,
that imitation is suicide,
that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is what survives when
what has been learned has been forgotten.
- B. F. Skinner
Education is not a preparation for life;
education is life itself.
- John Dewey
Education is the most powerful weapon
which you can use to change the world.
- Nelson Mandela
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge
and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
The philosophy of the school room in one generation
will be the philosophy of government in the next.
- Abraham Lincoln
The most important outcome of education
is to help students become independent of formal education.
- Paul E. Gray
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people ...
They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
Education is what remains after one has forgotten
what one has learned in school.
- Albert Einstein
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes
is a sign of want of education.
To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun.
To accuse neither oneself nor others
shows that one's education is complete.
- Epictetus
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
All that is valuable in human society
depends upon the opportunity for development
accorded the individual.
- Albert Einstein
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
- George Washington Carver
The highest education is that which
does not merely give us information
but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The function of education is to teach one
to think intensively and to think critically.
Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
I release the familiar that I may better discover my inspiring future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Better late than never.
- Proverb
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
The world is a better place because I am here.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
Trust yourself. Only you can live your life.
Only you can taste your victories.
Only you can suffer the sting of your defeats.
Make your own choices, and accept your own consequences -
for better or worse.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little coarse,
and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled
in the dirt once or twice.
Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities
in the illuminating light of your own mission
than to have your activities formed by the
impressions and expectations of others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I rest in the light of forgiveness.
I forgive myself and others for that
which is done (and better left undone)
and also that which is not done (and better if done).
I give myself permission to enjoy this moment without guilt.
I freely release all uncertainty, regret, and fear.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
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