Quotations by Theme
Education - Knowledge
"If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders."
Abigail Van Buren (Pauline Phillips), 1918-
"Everything in life changes you in some way. Even the smallest things. If you do not accept these changes you do not accept yourself. For through these changes brings new and greater things to you, making you wiser, as time progresses. To avoid these changes is a loss. You only live your life once. Do not waste a minute of it avoiding things. Let them come to you, and learn from them. There is always tomorrow."
Adam R. Gwizdala,
"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events."
Adrienne Rich, 1929-
"One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood."
Agatha Christie,
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
Agatha Christie,
"Text-messaging or The Sun, these are perfect Orwellian ways of limiting the vocabulary and thus limiting the consciousness."
Alan Moore, 1953-
"A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human."
Alan Turing, 1912-1954
"There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life."
Albert Bandura, 1925-
"People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives."
Albert Bandura, 1925-
"Charm is a way of getting the answer yet without asking a clear question."
Albert Camus, 1913-1960
"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is."
Albert Camus, 1913-1960
"Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep."
Albert Camus, 1913-1960
"The society based on production is only productive, not creative."
Albert Camus, 1913-1960
"The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism."
Albert Camus, 1913-1960
"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity."
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
"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, 1879-1955
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
"Our nervous system developed for one sole purpose, to maintain our lives and satisfy our needs. All our reflexes serve this purpose. this makes us utterly egotistic. With rare exceptions people are really interested in one thing only: themselves. Everybody, by necessity, is the center of his own universe."
Albert Szent-Györgyi,
"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."
Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963
"In a society that tries to standardise thinking, individuality is not highly prized."
Alex Grey, 1953-
"Instinct is untaught ability."
Alexander Bain, 1818-1903
"It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this."
Alexander Herzen,
"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."
Alexandre Dumas, 1802-1870
"There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure."
Alfred Adler, 1870-1937
"Man knows much more than he understands."
Alfred Adler, 1870-1937
"There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled."
Alfred Whitney Griswold, 1906-1963
"A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far"
Alice Meynell,
"Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder."
Alice Miller, 1923-
"All education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth."
Alvin Toffler, 1928-
"Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment."
ALVIN TOFFLER,
"An inventor is a person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."
Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914
"Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable."
Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914
"Faith; noun. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."
"Pray; verb. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."
Mythology: The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
Scriptures; noun. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based."
Ambrose Bierce,
"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum. Translation: I think [that] I think, therefore, I think [that] I am."
Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914
"Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914
"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."
Amy Lowell,
"The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy."
Anatole France, 1844-1944
"If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny."
Andre Maurois, 1885-1967
"First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker."
Andrew Bernstein,
"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."
Andy Goldsworthy, 1956
"Never fear spoiling children by making them happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow."
Ann Eliza Bray,
"In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil."
Anna Jameson, 1794-1860
"Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth."
Anna Jameson,
"All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side."
Anna Jameson,
"Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd."
Annie Besant,
"I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part."
Annie Besant, 1847-1933
"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction."
Annie Sullivan,
"What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice."
Archibald MacLeish, 1892-1982
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience."
Archibald McLeish, 1892-1982
"The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale - and that alone can guide."
Aristotle,
"Education is the best provision for the journey to old age."
Aristotle, 384-322 BCE
"The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children."
Aristotle, 384-322 BCE
"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."
Aristotle,
"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."
Aristotle,
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet"
Aristotle,
"The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching."
Aristotle,
"The whole is more than the sum of its parts."
Aristotle,
"Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach."
Aristotle,
"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."
Aristotle,
"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."
Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930
"Any truth is better than indefinite doubt."
Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930
"Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature."
Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930
"The Revolutionary’s Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modelled on some image of the Lost Paradise, of a legendary Golden Age.... All utopias are fed from the source of mythology; the social engineers’ blueprints are merely revised editions of the ancient text."
Arthur Koestler, 1905-1983
"A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke."
Arthur Miller,
"The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less."
Arthur Miller,
"Man must shape his tools lest they shape him."
Arthur Miller,
"Genius is the recovery of childhood at will."
Arthur Rimbaud,
"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."
Arthur Schopenhauer,
"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."
Arthur Schopenhauer,
"Compassion is the basis of all morality."
Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860
"I expect to pass through this world but once, any good thing therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature (or child), let me do it now, let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
Attienne De Grellet,
"It is evident that everything which does not exist at first and then exists, is determined by something other than itself."
Avicenna,
"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading."
B. F. Skinner, 1904-1990
"If kids come to us [educators/teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."
Barbara Colorose,
"No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning."
Barbara de Angelis,
"A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person."
Barbara Ehrenreich, 194-1
"Sexual ecstasy usually arises among dyads, or groups of two, but the ritual ecstasy of "primitives" emerged within groups generally composed of thirty or more participants. Thanks to psychology and the psychological concerns of Western culture generally, we have a rich language for describing the emotions drawing one person to another--from the most fleeting sexual attraction, to ego-dissolving love, all the way to the destructive force of obsession. What we lack is any way of describing and understanding the "love" that may exist among dozens of people at a time; and it is this kind of love that is expressed in ecstatic ritual."
Barbara Ehrenreich,
"Students learn what they care about . . .," Stanford Ericksen has said, but Goethe knew something else: "In all things we learn only from those we love." Add to that Emerson's declaration: "the secret of education lies in respecting the pupil." and we have a formula something like this: "Students learn what they care about, from people they care about and who, they know, care about them ."
Barbara Harrell Carson,
"The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them."
Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu,
"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd."
Baruch Spinoza,
"I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused."
Baruch Spinoza,
"The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue."
Baruch Spinoza,
"True virtue is life under the direction of reason."
Baruch Spinoza, 1632-1677
"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."
Baruch Spinoza,
"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."
Baruch Spinoza,
"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."
Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
"The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do."
Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes form society."
Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody."
Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
"To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do to another. (and to all children)"
Benjamin Jowett,
"The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error."
Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Fear is the main source of superstition, . . .. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I wish to preach "the will to doubt". What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite."
Bertrand Russell,
"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
Bertrand Russell,
"Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery."
Bertrand Russell,
"There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them."
Bertrand Russell,
"No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he himself believes to be of value."
Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970
"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
Bertrand Russell,
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."
Bertrand Russell,
"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."
Bertrand Russell,
"Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one."
Bertrand Russell,
"William James used to preach "the will to believe". For my part, I should wish to preach "the will to doubt". What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite."
Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970
"The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts -- the less you know the hotter you get."
Bertrand Russell,
"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men."
Bill Beattie,
"Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework"
Bill Cosby, 1937-
"Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to prove to these children who never made the mess in the first place that education is worth the trouble, our schools have to inspire them so they can do what they ought to do.
-- Bill Cosby, dismissing the theocrats' arguments for eliciting government financial support of private education, in, "Kids, Here's a Fine Mess They've Gotten Us Into," adapted from his Prologue to the book, Letters to the Next President: What We Can Do About the Real Crisis in Public Education (2004)"
Bill Cosby,
"A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm."
Bill Vaughan,
"Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar."
Bradley Miller,
"Once the anchor of reason has been cut, one's craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler."
Brand Blanshard, 1892-1987
"As the astounding vastness of the universe becomes obscured, there is a throwback to a vision of a universe that essentially amounts to earth, or one's country, or state or city. Perspective becomes myopic."
Brian Greene, 1963-
"A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence."
Bruce Lee, 1940-1973
"In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"Within the hearts of men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions only because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
Buddha, 563-483 BCE
"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."
C. S. Lewis, 1889-1963
"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 Gustav Jung, 1875-1961
"We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself ... We know nothing of man, far too little. His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil."
Carl Gustav Jung, 1875-1961
"An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. 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 Gustav Jung, 1875-1961
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
Carl Gustav Jung, 1875-1961
"Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself."
Carl Rogers,
"We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."
Cecil Day Lewis, 1904-1972
"Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds."
Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832
"Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves."
Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832
"Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys."
Charles De Lint,
"It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption."
Charles de Montesquieu,
"All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it."
Charles Fort,
"He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers."
Charles Peguy, 1873-1914
"A concept is stronger than a fact."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman,
"Strictly speaking, Natural Selection is not a cause at all, but is the mode of operation of a certain quite limited class of causes."
Chauncey Wright,
"The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours."
Chauncey Wright,
"The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form."
Chauncey Wright,
"Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life."
Chauncey Wright, 1830-1875
"Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground."
Chogyam Trungpa, 1939-1987
"The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer."
Christian Morgenstern, 1871-1914
"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."
Christian Nestell Bovee,
"For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity."
Christopher Dawson,
"We call a child's mind "small" simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort."
Christopher Morley, 1890-1957
"The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents."
Christopher Paolini,
"Your parents they give you your life, but then try to give you their life."
Chuck Palahniuk, 1962
"To say that God made the universe gives us no explanation of the beginnings of things. If we are told that God made the universe, the question immediately arises: Who made God? Did he always exist, or was there some power back of that? Did he create matter out of nothing, or is his existence coextensive with matter? The problem is still there. What is the origin of it all? If, on the other hand, one says that the universe was not made by God, that it always existed, he has the same difficulty to confront. To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess."
Clarence Seward Darrow,
"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt!"
Clarence Seward Darrow,
"Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism."
Claude McKay,
"It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents (teachers sometimes) in their place."
Colette,
"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it."
Colin Wilson, 1931-
"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."
Confucius, 551-479 BCE
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
Confucius, 551-479 BCE
"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure."
Confucius, 551-479 BCE
"Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire."
Confucius, 551-479 BCE
"It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family."
Confucius, 551-479 BCE
"No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance."
Confucius, 551-479 BCE
"True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion."
Corliss Lamont, 1902-1995
"The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature."
Corliss Lamont,
"I think we need to train up a new kind of educational leader [who] will need fundamental preparation in the humanities of education, those studies of history, philosophy and literature that will enable him to develop a clear and compelling vision of education and of its relation to American life. These latter studies have been under something of a cloud in recent decades because their immediate utility is difficult to demonstrate. But it is their ultimate utility, that really matters, for only as educators begin to think deeply about the ends of learning will the politics of popular education go beyond mere competition for dollars and cents and become what Plato realized it must ideally be--a constant reaching for the good society."
Cremin,
"It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experiencedt the undefinable menace of total rationalism."
Czeslaw Milosz,
"One sheds one's sicknesses in books--repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them."
D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
"My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle."
D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
"One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them."
D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
"The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment."
D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."
Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving."
Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955
"The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!"
Daniel Dennett, 1942-
"The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain"
Daniel Goleman, 1946-
"The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication."
Daniel Goleman, 1946-
"The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response."
Daniel Goleman, 1946-
"When people are feeling very upbeat, energized, happy, optimistic, there is a lot of activity in the left pre-frontal cortex."
Daniel Goleman, 1946-
"Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that."
David Chalmers, 1966-
"Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes"
David Chalmers, 1966-
"Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together."
David Hare, 1947-
"The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster."
David Hume, 1711-1776
"The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other."
David Riesman, 1909-2002
"Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure."
David Viscott, 1938-1996
"The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born."
Dean Inge, 1860-1954
"We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has."
Deborah Tannen, 1945-
"To think is to practice brain chemistry."
Deepak Chopra, 1946-
"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."
Democritus, 460-370BCE
"It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all."
Democritus,
"There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches and the like. All these are the work of human hands aided by money. But prudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard, which is the common possession of all, especially to the dealings of democracies with dictatorships. What is this safeguard? Skepticism. This you must preserve. This you must retain. If you can keep this, you need fear no harm."
Demosthenes, 384-322BCE
"Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods."
Denis Waitley,
"Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future."
Denis Waitley,
"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."
Denis Waitley,
"The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."
Denis Waitley,
"The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval."
Denis Waitley,
"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."
Denis Waitley,
"Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised."
Denis Waitley,
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