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Quotations from the Wayside
All experience is an arch to build upon.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS
The fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
ARISTOTLE
There is no money lost that is used in educating the people.
OLYMPIA BROWN
One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Let’s not think so much we forget to feel.
ROGER COWAN
Minds are like parachutes—they only function when open.
THOMAS DEWAR
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY
In much wisdom is much grief:
and he that increaseth
Knowledge increaseth sorrow.
ECCLESIASTES 12:12
The only rational way of educating is to be an example.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Knowledge is the antidote to fear.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Nations die by suicide. The sign of it is the decay of thought.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
ENGLISH PROVERB
If you have knowledge, let others light their candle at it.
MARGARET FULLER
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
JOHN GALSWORTHY
There is no sight more fearful than ignorance in action.
GOETHE
Education which does not produce a free mind is not education.
JOHN GUNTHER
There is no darkness but ignorance: let us flood the world with light.
ROBERT INGERSOLL
Take from the altars of the past the fire, not the ashes.
JEAN JAUVES
There is no better ruler than wisdom—no safer guardian than justice.
THE KORAN
A free people must be a thinking people.
EVERETT DEAN MARTIN
The mind is not sex-typed.
MARGARET MEAD
It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn.
HANNAH MORE
Nothing ages people like not thinking.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
PLUTARCH
Apply thy heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
PROVERBS 23:12
The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.
SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN
Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery.
CHET RAYMO
Knowledge is good even if what is known is painful.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Learning and liberty march hand in hand or they do not march at all.
SIR HARTLEY SHAWCROSS
Howling is not a substitute for thinking.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
None is poor but the person who lacks knowledge.
ABAYE TALMUD
Knowledge can be power and salvation if we have the power to use it.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE
Every thought is like a bell with many echoes.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
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