Seniors Choose Quotes
Fall 2003
http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/learning/

"Well done is better than well said. "
                                                              - Benjamin Franklin

*~ "You cannot teach a man anything, you can only
help him to find it for himself."~*~
           ---Galileo Galilei
 

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
                                       Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)

"All problems are a projection towards the future of possible realities
         based on the past."                                              -  Shya Kan  
 

"Make progress every day .... life is not always about dramatic change,
          but more often about the small steps and achievements we  make each day. "
                                                                      - Verizon

The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
                                     - Andre Gide (1869-1951)
 

Old enough to know better.
     This is better.        - N. Robertshaw


~*~     "If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking."  ~*~                             
                                                                                                                                  - George Patton          

~*~       ""Nothing pains some people more than having to think."    ~*~
                                                                                      - Martin Luther King Jr


~*~        “ “A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.”    ~*~
                                            ~ annonymous

~*~  You cannot get to the top by sitting on your bottom.  ~*~
~ annonymous

Quotes from the Columns
 (Charlotte Public Library, Charlotte, NC)

~*~ "Once you learn to read you will be forever free."    ~*~
              - Frederick Douglass

~*~ "It is not true that we have only one life to live;
if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish." ~*~
S.I. Hayakawa
 

~*~ "To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."  ~*~
Edmund Burke
 

~*~ "I just like to know,"  said Pooh humbly.   ~*~
                       - A.A. Milne

~*~ "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ."
                                                 - Malcolm S. Forbes ~*~
 

~*~ "Why do writers write? Because it isn't there." ~*~
                                                    - Thomas Berger
 

~*~ "Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation upon what you intend to do."
                                                  -  Liz Smith    ~*~


Quotes after Sept 11, 2001

~*~"The most valuable lesson is tolerance and understanding of our neighbors."   ~*~
- Rich Marvin,  iScienceProject
 

~*~Education is not simply something we need in order to get a better job in the future.  Education is also something we need in order to become better people  who are capable of creating a better world.  The terrorist attacks that occurred  last week challenge us to use our education to promote a more peaceful, more  just world for all people.      ~*~
- Margaret E. Weigers,  Gallaudet University