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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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