OVER 500 inspirational quotes with many related to teaching compiled by Stephen Shore in collaboration with Dr. Richard Zakia

1		A. Bronson Alcott	The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
2		Abba Eban	History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
3		Abigail Adams	We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
4		Abigail Van Buren	If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
5		Abraham Lincoln	How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
6		Abraham Lincoln	I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
7		Abraham Lincoln	Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.
8		Abraham Lincoln	We, the people, are the rightful masters of both congress and the courts - not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the constitution.
9		Abraham Lincoln	You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.
10		Abraham Maslow	When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
11		Adlai E. Stevenson	A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular
12		Adlai E. Stevenson	All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
14		African Proverb	Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
15		African proverb	To not know is bad. To wish not to know is worse.
16		Alan Jay Lerner	Only the mediocre are always at their best.
17		Albert Camus	Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
18		Albert Camus	If there is sin against life, it consists... in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
19		Albert Camus	Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
20		Albert Camus	The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
21		Albert Einstein	Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
22		Albert Einstein	Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
23		Albert Einstein	Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
24		Albert Einstein	Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
25		Albert Einstein	He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
26		Albert Einstein	He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.
27		Albert Einstein	I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
28		Albert Einstein	I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
29		Albert Einstein	If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
30		Albert Einstein	Imagination is more important than knowledge.
31		Albert Einstein	It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
32		Albert Einstein	Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
33		Albert Einstein	Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
34		Albert Einstein	Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
35		Albert Einstein	Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
36		Albert Einstein	The important thing is never to stop questioning.
37		Albert Einstein	The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.
38		Albert Einstein	Today's problems cannot be solved by thinking the way we thought when we created them.
39		Albert Einstein	Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
40		Albert Einstein	You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
41		Albert Schweitzer	Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
42		Albert Schweitzer	Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
43		Alexander Pope	A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
44		Alfred Korzybski	There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
45		Alfred North Whitehead	Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
46		Ambrose Bierce	Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
47		Amos Alcott	The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influences.
48		Amos Bronson Alcott	The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
49		Amoz Oz	Every one who changes is often a traitor in the eyes of those who can never change.
50		Anais Nin	Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.
51		Anatole France	Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
52		Anatole France	If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
53		Anatole France	The first virtue of really great men is that they are sincere.
54		Andrew Carnegie	As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
55		Andrew Jackson	Sometimes one man with courage is a majority.
56		Angolan Proverb	The one who throws the stone forgets; the one who is hit remembers forever.
57		Ann Morrow Lindberg	A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.
58		Anonymous	Even the clearest water appears opaque at great depth.
59		Anonymous	It is wise to remember that, with one insignificant exception, the universe is comprised of others.
60		Anonymous	The best thing to spend on children is time. Become a BIG spender!
61		Anonymous	You can't direct the wind but you can adjust the sails.
62		Anonymous student	We think of the effective teachers we have had over the years with a sense of recognition, but those who have touched our humanity we remember with a deep sense of gratitude.
63		Anthony Robbins	It is in the moment of your decisions that your destiny is shaped.
64		Anthony Robbins	The road to success is always under construction.
65		Antoine de Saint-Exupery	I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
66		Antoine de Saint-Exupery	It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
67		Anton Cheknov	Man is what he believes.
68		approved by George Washington, unanimously ratified by the U.S. Senate, and signed by John Adams 1797	The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
69		Aristotle	Dignity does not come in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
70		Aristotle	Education is the best viaticum of old age.
71		Aristotle	It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
72		Aristotle	Our characters are the result of our conduct.
73		Aristotle	The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
74		Aristotle	We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
75		Art Buchwald	Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
76		Arthur C. Clarke	Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.
77		Arthur C. Clarke	The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
78		Arthur C. Clarke	The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible
79		Arthur Koestler	Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
80		Arthur Schopenhauer	Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
81		Arthur Schopenhauer	Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
82		Avesta-Yasna	Everlasting peace is theirs who choose goodness for its own sake, without expectation of any reward.
83		Azerbaijani Proverb	It's not shameful not to know, but it's shameful not to ask.
84		Babs Hoffman	Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.
85		Babylonian Talmud	Three things restore a person's good spirits: beautiful sounds, sights, and smells.
86		Bahya ibn Pakuda	Days are scrolls: write on them what you want to be remembered.
87		Barbara Morgan	Let the potential artist in our children come to life that they may surmount industrial monotonies and pressures.
88		Baruch Spinoza	Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
89		Baruch Spinoza	Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.
90		Bellamy Brooks	Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
91		Ben Zion Bokser	The tragedy is that many people build fences around their lives, instead of open roads.
92		Benedict Spinoza	The most tyrannical governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
93		Benjamin Disraeli	There is no education like adversity.
94		Benjamin Disraeli	Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
95		Benjamin Disraeli	The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated in quotations.
96		Benjamin Disraeli	There is no education like adversity.
97		Benjamin Disraeli	To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
98		Benjamin Franklin	Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
99		Benjamin Franklin	Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
100		Benjamin Franklin	Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
101		Benjamin Franklin	There never was a good war or a bad peace.
102		Benjamin Franklin	They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
103		Benjamin Franklin	Those who exchange essential liberty for temporary security shall have neither liberty nor security.
104		Benjamin Franklin	Well done is better than well said.
105		Bernard Baruch	Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong about his facts.
107		Bernard Malamud	The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
108		Bertrand Russell	The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
109		Beverly Sills	You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
110		Bismarck	A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
111		Blaise Pascal	If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
112		Blaise Pascal	Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
113		Blaise Pascal	Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
114		Blaise Pascal	The only shame is to have none.
116		Blaise Pascal	The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
117		Blaise Pascal	There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
118		Bo Diddley	Don't let your mouth write no check that your tail can't cash.
119		Boris Pasternak	I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
120		Buddha	A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
121		Buddha	Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
122		Buddha	Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
123		C.B. Neblette	Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating.
124		C.B. Neblette	The critical factor is not class size but rather the nature of the teaching as it affects learning.
125		C.S. Lewis	Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God you learn.
126		Cardinal Newman	How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
127		Carl Rogers	The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.
128		Casey Stengel	The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
129		Charles Darwin	It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
130		Charles Evans Hughes	When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
131		Charles F. Kettering	Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
132		Charles Franklin Kettering	A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
133		Chinese Proverb	By viewing the old we learn the new
134		Chinese Proverb	Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.
135		Chinese Proverb	I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand.
136		Chinese proverb	Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.
137		Chinese Proverb	Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
138		Chinese proverb	The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
139		Chinese Proverb	The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives.
140		Chinese Proverbs	The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
141		Clarence Darrow	To think is to differ.
142		Confucius	I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world.
143		Confucius	Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Let me do and I understand.
144		Conrad Hilton	Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.
145		Dakota proverb	We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
146		Dan Barker	Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits.
147		Dan Zadra	Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
148		Dandemis	Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
149		Daniel Webster	The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions
150		David Starr Jordan	Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
151		Derek Bok	If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
152		Dick Cavett	If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
153		Diogenes Laertius	The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
154		Diogenes Laertius	When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, "Not to unlearn what you have learned!"
155		Dorothy Parker	The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
156		Douglas Adams	Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
157		Duke Ellington	A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
158		Dwight D. Eisenhower	A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
159		Dwight D. Eisenhower	Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
161		E. M. Forster	One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
162		Edmund Burke	All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
163		Edmund Burke	No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
164		Edward Abbey	A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
167		Edward R. Murrow	We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
168		Elijah ben Solomon Zalman	Let not the teacher impose his yoke heavily on them [children], for instruction is only efficient when it is conveyed easily and agreeably.
169		Elsa Maxwell	Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
170		Elvis Presley	Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
171		Emily Post	Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
172		Emma Goldman	It takes less mental effort to condemn than to think.
175		Emma Goldman	Understand one another.
176		Epictetus	First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
177		Epictetus	Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
178		Epictetus	Only the educated are free.
179		Epicurus	It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
180		Ernest Hemingway	Life breaks us. And when we heal, we're stronger in the broken parts.
181		Euripides	Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead to the future.
182		F. M. Hubbard	Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
183		F. Scott Fitzgerald	Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.
184		Felix Frankfurter	The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
185		Finnish Proverb	If you can not find peace within yourself, it is useless to look elsewhere.
186		Francis Bacon	Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
188		Francis Bacon	Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
189		Francis Bacon	Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
190		Frank Lloyd Wright	The truth is more important than the facts.
191		Frederic Bastiat	The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.
192		Frederick Douglass	It's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men
193		Frederick Douglass	The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
194		Frederick Douglass	Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depricate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing the ground.
195		Friedrich Nietzsche	Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
196		Friedrich Nietzsche	I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
198		G.K. Chesterton	The really great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
199		Gail Godwin	Good teaching is one-forth preparation and three-fourths theater.\r\n
200		Galielo Galilei	You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
201		Galileo Galilei	All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
202		Galileo Galilei, 1615	I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
203		Gen. George S. Patton	Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
204		Gen. George S. Patton	Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
205		Georg Lichtenberg	To do just the opposite is a form of imitation.
206		George Bernard Shaw	Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
207		George Bernard Shaw	One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
208		George Bernard Shaw	The greatest problem with communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.
209		George Bernard Shaw	To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
210		George Bernard Shaw	You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'
211		George Eliot	It is never too late to be what you might have been.
212		George Eliot (Mary-Ann Evans)	Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
213		George Santayana	A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
214		George Washington	Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
215		Gertrude Stein	Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really frightening.
216		Gilbert Highet	People learn more quickly by doing something or seeing something done.
217		Golda Meir	I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
218		Gregory Peck (line in movie The Big Country)	I'm not responsible for what people think; only for what I am.
219		Groucho Marx	Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
220		Gyorgy Kepes	Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.
221		H.G. Wells	Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
222		H.L. Mencken	For every complex and difficult issue, there is always an answer that is simple, easy, and wrong.
223		H.L. Mencken	For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
225		H.L. Mencken	For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong.
226		H.L. Mencken	I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
227		H.L. Mencken	I don't mind if you try to make me think as you do, just don't try to make me do as you think.
228		H.L. Mencken	It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
229		H.L. Mencken	The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
230		H.L. Mencken	The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamourous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
231		Hannibal	We will either find a way, or we will make one.
232		Harriet Braiker	Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
233		Harry S Truman	We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.
234		Harry S. Truman	It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
235		Heinrich Heine	Whenever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
236		Helen Keller	Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
237		Helen Keller	No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
238		Helen Keller	The highest result of education is tolerance.
239		Henry Adams	A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
240		Henry Adams	They know enough who know how to learn.
241		Henry David Thoreau	A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
242		Henry David Thoreau	I want to live deep and suck the marrow out of life!
243		Henry Ford	Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
244		Henry Ford	You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
245		Henry James Jr.	It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
246		Henry S. Haskins	Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.
247		Henry Van Dyke	There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
248		Heraclitus	If you do not expect it, you will not find the unexpected, for it is hard to find and difficult.
249		Heraclitus	Much learning does not teach understanding.
250		Hillel	Judaism: What is hateful to you do not do to your neighbor This is the whole torah; all the rest is commentary.
251		Hillel	Say not, "When I have leisure I will study." Perhaps you will have not leisure.
252		Hinduism	He does not live in vain who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech to advance the good of others.
253		Hiram Johnson	The first casualty when war comes is truth.
254		Horace Mann	Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.
255		Howard Lester	I have been maturing as a teacher. New experiences bring new sensitivities and flexibility...
256		Indian Proverb	The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.
257		Indira Gandhi	There are two types of employees: Those who do the work, and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is much less competition there.
258		Iroquois Proverb	The greatest strength is gentleness.
259		Isaac Abrabanel	A person without a friend is like a left hand without a right
260		Isaac Asimov	A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written.
261		Isaac Asimov	If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
262		Isaac Asimov	Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
263		Isaac Bashevis Singer	Life is God's novel so let him write it.
264		Isaac Bashevis Singer	Shoulders are from God, and burdens too.
266		Isaac Newton	If I have seen further [than certain other men] it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
267		Jack London	The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
268		Jacob Bronowski	It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
269		James Thurber	Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
270		James Thurber	It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all of the answers.
271		Japanese Proverb	Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
272		Jeanette Winterson	After every ÒvictoryÓ you have more enemies.
273		JeanGiraudoux	Only the mediocre are always at their best.
274		Jeremy Bentham	Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
275		Jesus of Nazareth	Put up again thy sword into its place: for all they that take the sword shall perish by the sword.
276		Jewish Proverb	A man who gives a little with a smile gives more than the man with a frown.
277		Jewish Proverb	Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.
278		Jewish Proverb	Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.
279		Jewish Proverb	Truth is the safest lie.
281		Joe Ancis	The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
282		Johann W. Goethe	A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
283		John Burroughs	A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
284		John Cage	I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
285		John Carolus S.J.	No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own education.
286		John Carolus S.J.	We think too much about effective methods of teaching and not enough about effective methods of learning.
287		John Dewey	One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.
288		John Dewey	The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.
289		John F. Kennedy	Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth
290		John F. Kennedy	Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
291		John F. Kennedy	Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
292		John Fitzgerald Kennedy	As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
293		John Gray	As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.
294		John Jay Chapman	Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.
295		John Locke	Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.
296		John Ruskin	Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning, ... by praise, but above all -- by example.
297		John W. Gardner	An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.
298		John W. Gardner	Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
299		Jos' Bergam'n	A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
300		Josef Albers	Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
302		Joseph Campbell	The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.
303		Joseph Campbell	The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.
304		Joseph Joubert	To teach is to learn twice.
305		Justice Louis D. Brandeis	If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.
306		Kahlil Gibran	Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.
307		Kenneth G. Johnson	Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.
308		Lawana Blackwell	Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
309		Lena Horne	It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
310		Leo Burnett	When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
311		Leo Tolstoy	at an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.
312		Leon Trotsky	Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
313		Lord Dewar	Minds are like parachutes; they only function when open.
314		Louis D. Brandeis	Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.
315		Louis Pasteur	In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.
316		Lucius A. Seneca	Men learn while they teach.
317		Lucius A. Seneca	The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.
318		Lucius Annaeus Seneca	It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.
319		Ludwig B'rne	Only the suppressed word is dangerous.
320		Ludwig Wittgenstein	The limits of your language are the limits of your world.
323		Lyman Beecher	No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
324		Mahatma Gandhi	An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
325		Malcolm S. Forbes	Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
327		Malcolm X	Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
328		Marcel Proust	The true voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
329		Marcus Aurelius	A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
330		Marcus Aurelius	The opinion of 10, 000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
331		Marcus T. Cicero	If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
332		Marcus Tullius Cicero	I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
333		Marcus Tullius Cicero	What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth.
334		Marcus Tullius Cicero	What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage.
335		Margaret Mead	Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
336		Margot Fonteyn	Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
337		Marie Curie	Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
338		Marie Curie	One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
339		Mario Andretti	If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
340		Mark Twain	ÔTis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
342		Mark Twain	Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
343		Mark Twain	Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
345		Mark Twain	If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
346		Mark Twain	There is nothing you cannot accomplish today.
347		Mary Kay Ash	One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.
348		Mary MacCracken	Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
349		Max Born	The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.
350		Medgar Evers	You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
351		Michel Montaigne	I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
353		Michelangelo	A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
354		Michelangelo	Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
355		Miguel de Unamuno	It is easy to spot an informed man -- his opinions are just like your own.
356		Milton Glaser	One of the signs of a damaged ego is absolute certainty.
357		Minquass proverb	If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
358		Mohandas Gandhi	Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
359		Mohandas Gandhi	Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
360		Mohandas Gandhi	Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
361		Mohandes Gandhi	There is more to life than increasing its speed.
363		Moses Maimonides	Much wisdom I have learned from my teachers, more from my colleagues and from my students most of all.
364		Moshe Arens	Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
365		Moshe Leib of Sassov	It is only the one who has withstood temptation who is truly righteous.
366		Muhammad	A man's true wealth is hereafter the good he does in this world to his fellow man.
367		Muhammad Ali	Don't count the days, make the days count.
368		Muhammad Ali	He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
370		Muhammad Ali	Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
371		Muhammad Ali	The man who has no imagination has no wings.
372		Muhammad Ali	The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
373		Naguib Mahfouz	You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
374		Niels Bohr	Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
375		Nikos Kazanzakis in "Zorba, the Greek"	Man needs a little madness, otherwise he doesn't dare to cut the rope and be free!
376		Noam Chomsky	Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
377		Noam Chomsky	If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
378		Norman Vincent Peale	There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
379		Oliver Wendell Holmes	Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
380		Oprah Winfrey	When I look at the future, it's so bright, it burns my eyes.
381		Orhot Tzadikim. 15th Century	Be open-eyed to the great wonders of nature, familiar though they may be, or people are more likely to be astonished at the sun's eclipse than at its unfailing rise.
382		Orson Welles	An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
383		Ovid	Let ancient times delight other folk. I rejoice that I was not born till now.
384		Ovid	Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
385		Ovid	Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.
386		P. D. James	What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
388		Pat Riley	Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
389		Patricia Neal	A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
390		Paul Tillich	The first duty of love is to listen.
391		Pearl S. Buck	Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
392		Peter F. Drucker	There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
393		Picasso	Why assume that to look is to see.
394		Pierre de Coubertin	The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.
395		Pierre Teilhard de Chardin	It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
396		Plato	The beginning is the most important part of the work.
397		Plato	Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
398		Pliny the Younger	An object in possession seldom contains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
399		Plutarch	The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.
400		Plutarch	The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
401		Proverb	The wise learn from the experience of others, most from their own experience, and fools not at all.
402		Rabbi Ben-Azai	In seeking wisdom thou are wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou are a fool.
403		Rabbi Israel Salanter	First a person should put his house together, then his town, then the world.
404		Rabbi Schachtel	Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
405		Ralph W. Emerson	Every artist was at first an amateur.
407		Ralph Waldo Emerson	A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
409		Ralph Waldo Emerson	Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
410		Ralph Waldo Emerson	To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
411		Rashid Elisha	To arrive at the simple is difficult.
412		Rashid Elisha	Reinventing the wheel is a process.
413		Rene Descartes	The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.
414		Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.
415		Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
416		Richard Moss, M.D.	The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention
417		Roald Dahl	Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
418		Robert A. Heinlein	It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so...
419		Robert Anthony	Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.
420		Robert Browning	One's reach should exceed one's grasp, or what's a heaven for?
421		Robert Frost	I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
422		Robert M. Hutchins	Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.
423		Robert Oppenheimer	Knowledge rests on knowledge; what is new is meaningful because it departs slightly from what was known before.
424		Robert Orben	Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
425		Sam Levinson	Insanity is hereditary: You can get it from your children.
426		Samuel Beckett	We are all born mad. Some remain so.
427		Samuel Johnson	Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its values only to its scarcity.
428		Santayana	The difficult is that which can be done immediately; the impossible is that which takes a little longer."
429		Satchel Paige	Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.
430		Satchel Paige	Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
431		Saul Lieberman	The difference between a smart man and a wise one is this: A smart man can work his way out of a difficulty that the wise man will not get into in the first place.
432		Saul Lieberman	The role model of the teacher is the best lesson\r\nin teaching the goodness of the right way.
433		Seneca	Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
434		Seneca	It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
436		Seumas MacManus	The young don't know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.
438		Shing Xiong	In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away.
439		Sigmund Freud	Am I to believe in every absurdity? If not, why this one in particular?
440		Sigmund Freud	Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
441		Sigmund Freud	I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.
442		Sigmund Freud	In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
443		Sigmund Freud	The first requisite of civilization . . . is that of justice.
444		Sigmund Freud	What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
445		Sigmund Freud	When inspiration does not come to me, I go half way to meet it.
446		Sir Francis Bacon	Knowledge is power.
447		Sir Robert Baden-Powell	A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.
448		Sir Robert Baden-Powell	A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
449		Sir Robert Baden-Powell	A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.
450		Sir Robert Baden-Powell	If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot !
451		Sir Robert Baden-Powell	It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter.
452		Sir Robert Baden-Powell	Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions
453		Sir Robert Baden-Powell	See things from the boy's point of view.
454		Sir Robert Baden-Powell	Teach Scouts not how to get a living, but how to live.
456		Sir Robert Baden-Powell	Teach Scouts not how to get a living, but how to live.
457		Sir Robert Baden-Powell	The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.
458		Sir Robert Baden-Powell	The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
459		Sir Robert Baden-Powell	The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.
460		Sir Robert Baden-Powell	The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.
461		Sir Robert Baden-Powell	There is no teaching to compare with example.
462		Sir Robert Baden-Powell	We must change boys from a "what can I get" to a "what can I give" attitude.
463		Sir Robert Baden-Powell	We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
464		Sir Winston Churchill	Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
465		Sir Winston Churchill	For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
466		Sir Winston Churchill	The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
467		Sir Winston Churchill	The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
468		Sir Winston Churchill	The price of greatness is responsibility.
469		Sir Winston Churchill	There are a lot of lies going around... and half of them are true.
470		Sir Winston Churchill	We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
471		Socrates	Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
472		Socrates	The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
473		Sophocles	One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try.
474		Sophocles	One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try.
475		Soren Kierkegaard	To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose one's self.
476		St. Augustine	It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.
477		St. Peter	Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.
478		St. Thomas Aquinas	Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
479		Stan Lee	With great power comes great responsibility.
480		Stanislaw Jerszy Lec	The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.
481		Stephane Mallarme	To define is to destroy, to suggest is to create.
482		Stephen Hawking	Although science may solve the problem of how the universe began, it can not answer the question: Why does the universe bother to exist? Maybe only God can answer that.
483		Stephen Hawking	The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
484		Steve Young	The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
485		Susan B Anthony	I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
486		T.S. Eliot	No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest ...
487		T.S. Eliot	Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go
488		Talmud Yerushalmi	We will be held accountable for all the permitted pleasures we failed to enjoy.
489		The Talmud	If you add to the truth, you subtract from it.
490		The Talmud	He that gives should never remember, he that receives should never forget.
491		The Talmud	Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
492		The Talmud	Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.
493		Theodore Roosevelt	Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official...
494		Thomas A. Kempis	Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
495		Thomas Edison	Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
496		Thomas Edison	There is a better way for everything. Find it.
497		Thomas Jefferson	Delay is preferable to error.
498		Thomas Jefferson	It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
499		Thomas Jefferson	Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason than of blindfolded fear.
500		Thomas Jefferson	The glow of one warm thought is, to me, worth more than money.
501		Thomas Mann	People's behavior makes sense if you think about it inn terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
502		Thomas P. Murphy	Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely.
503		Thomas Paine	Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
504		Thomas Sowell	Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.
505		Thomas Wolfe	I put the relation of a fine teacher to a student just below the relation of a mother to a son...
506		Tom Braun	There is no wisdom without knowledge.
507		Tommy Lasorda	The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
508		Tryon Edwards	If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others
509		Tuscarora proverb	Man has responsibility, not power.
510		Ute proverb	Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Walk beside me that we may be as one.
511		Vernon Harper	Every time you admire something in nature, its a prayer to the Creator.
522		Vernon Harper	Every time you admire something in nature, its a prayer to the Creator.
523		Vince Lombardi	If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
524		Vince Lombardi	The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
525		Vincent Van Gogh	The best way to know life is to love many things.
526		Vladimir Lenin	Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
527		Vladimir Lenin	Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
528		Voltaire	A witty saying proves nothing.
529		Voltaire	Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
530		Voltaire	Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
531		Voltaire	It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
532		Voltaire	Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
533		W. Edwards Deming	If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
534		W. Somerset Maugham	I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe commonsense to God.
545		Walt Disney	It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
546		Walter Bagehot	It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results.
547		Walter Bagehot	The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
548		Wayne Gretzky	You'll miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
549		Will Rogers	Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
550		Will Rogers	If stupidity got us into this mess, why can't it get us out of it.
551		William James	In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
552		William Drummond	He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
553		William James	A great many people think they are thinking when they are actually rearranging their prejudices.
554		William James	The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
555		William James	These then are my last words to you: be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
556		William Shakespeare	The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
557		William Wordsworth	Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
558		Wilson Mizner	I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
559		Winston Churchill	The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
560		Woody Allen	If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank.
561		Yogi Berra	You can observe a lot by just looking around.
562		Yousef Karsh	If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
563		Zohar	A man should address another in the language that he understands.
563		Zohar	If a man praises himself it is a sign that he knows nothing.