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Past, Present, Future

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
                           -- Paul Boese

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
                           -- François de La Rouchefoucauld

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
                           -- George Orwell

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift - that's why they call it the present.
                           -- Anonymous

Childhood

Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
                           -- Arthur C. Coxe

The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
                           -- Quentin Crisp

Children are a poor man's riches.
                           -- English proverb

Every child is born a genius.
                           -- R. Buckminster Fuller

Youth is wasted on the young.
                           -- George Bernard Shaw

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
                           -- Peter Ustinov

I am not young enough to know everything.
                           -- Oscar Wilde

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
                           -- Oscar Wilde

The child is the father of the man.
                           -- William Wordsworth

The Creative Mind

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
                           -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
                           -- Howard Aiken

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
                           -- Anonymous

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
                           -- Charles Brower

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
                           -- John Cage

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
                           -- Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
                           -- Albert Einstein

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.
                           -- Victor Hugo

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
                           -- Bertrand Russell

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
                           -- Publilius Syrus

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
                           -- Mark Twain

("The most important thing is") Your Education

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
                           -- Hector Louis Berlioz

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
                           -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed

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.
                           -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
                           -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
                           -- John Ciardi

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
                           -- Cicero

Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
                           -- Norman Douglas

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
                           -- Alexandre Dumas fils

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
                           -- Albert Einstein

You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
                           -- Robert Frost

To teach is to learn twice.
                           -- Joseph Joubert

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
                           -- Socrates

Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
                           -- G. M. Trevelyan

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
                           -- Mark Twain

Wisdom

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
                           -- Anonymous

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
                           -- Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
                           -- Albert Einstein

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
                           -- Albert Einstein

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
                           -- William James

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
                           -- William James

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
                           -- Samuel Johnson

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
                           -- Oscar Levant

We are all either fools or undiscovered geniuses.
                           -- Bonnie Lin

Know thyself.
                           -- Linnaeus

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
                           -- Bertrand Russell

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
                           -- Johnathan Swift

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
                           -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
                           -- Henrik Tikkanen

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. (Plato's Apology)"

Have Faith

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
                          -- G. K. Chesterton

Destiny is the scapegoat we make responsible for our crimes.
                         -- ... scottish philosopher

"People do not want words - they want the sound of battle ... the battle of destiny."
                         --Gamal Abdel Nasser

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
                           -- Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
                           -- Albert Einstein

Hell is paved with good samaritans.
                           -- William M. Holden

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
                           -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
                           -- Doug MacLeod

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
                           -- H. L. Mencken

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
                           -- Robert M. Pirsig

The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
                           -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan

The church is the great lost and found department.
                           -- Robert Short

Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
                           -- William Temple

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
                           -- Thornton Wilder

Love

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
                          -- Diane Ackerman

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
                          -- Anonymous

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
                          -- Anonymous

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
                          -- Anonymous

Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
                          -- Anonymous

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
                          -- Marcus Aurelius

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
                          -- David Chambless

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
                          -- G. K. Chesterton

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
                          -- Joan Crawford

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
                          -- Albert Einstein

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
                          -- French Proverb

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
                          -- Sigmund Freud

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
                          -- Erich Fromm

Where there is love there is life.
                          -- Gandhi

We love because it's the only true adventure.
                          -- Nikki Giovanni

We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
                          -- William Gladstone

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
                          -- Robert G. Ingersoll

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
                          -- Lao Tzu

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
                          -- D. H. Lawrence

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
                          -- Michael Leunig

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
                          -- H. L. Mencken

The course of true love never did run smooth.
                          -- William Shakespeare

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
                          -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1.

'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
                          -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
                          -- Mother Teresa

Who, being loved, is poor?
                          -- Oscar Wilde

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