"That's the reason they're called lessons, " the Gryphon remarked, "because they lesson from day to day."

-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Unknown

"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then—to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn."

-- T.H. White, The Once and Future King, Unknown

"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then—to learn."

-- T H. White, The Once and Future King, Unknown

... life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.

-- Alan Blinder (Princeton), Unknown , Unknown

...I was faced with a choice: to deny my addiction and embrace that 'comfortably numb' but 'magicless' existence, or accept the burden of insight, take the road less travelled, and embark on the often painful journey to discover who I was and where I fit.

-- Roger Waters of 'Pink Floyd', Unknown , Unknown

...one of the reasons I like classes and structured learning is that they encourage --and contribute to--the belief that life is orderly, that things happen when they are supposed to happen, that actions have predictable results and that events are controllable.

-- Roby James, Commencement, p. 189, Unknown

...under no circumstances shall any learning take place in the State of New Jersey.

-- New Jersey Department of Education, a cease and desist letter to Nova Southeastern University's distance ed efforts, 1974

A college student is someone who's learned to write home for money in three or four languages.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

-- Martin Fischer, Unknown , born November 10, 1879

A figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for logic.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A good education is like a savings account. The more you put into it, the richer you are.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

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

-- William James, Unknown , Unknown

A great oak is only a little nut that held its ground.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

A half truth is a whole lie.

-- Yiddish Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

-- Alexander Pope, Unknown , 1688-1744

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

-- Frederick Douglass, Unknown , Unknown

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

-- Patricia Neale, Unknown , Unknown

A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.

-- Plutarch, Unknown , Unknown

A mind is a terrible thing to ugg.. I forgot.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A new voyage will fill your life with untold memories.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

A person who speaks cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart.

-- Terry Carr, Unknown , Unknown

A person's wound is where their passion is born.

-- Marilyn Hamilton, Unknown , Unknown

A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

-- Charles F. Kettering, Unknown , Unknown

A schedule defends from chaos and whim.

-- Annie Dillard, Unknown , Unknown

A short pencil is better than a long memory.

-- unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

-- Kurt Lewin, Unknown , Unknown

A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.

-- Sir Richard Livingston, Unknown , Unknown

A tiny hole can empty a great big bucket.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

A zealous school reformer, wearied by jousting with the status quo, heard about a spiritualist who was able to make contact with the dear departed. So one evening, he went to one of her seances. And when his turn came, he asked her to make contact with John Dewey. After struggling for a while, she reached America's greatest philosopher. The reformer was thrilled. "Professor Dewey," he said, "We have labored for 15 years to improve America's schools without success. Please tell me how we can create the kinds of schools our children need and deserve?" Dewey hesitated a moment and replied: "Well, there is the natural way and the miraculous way. Which do you want?" The reformer, his idealism faltering, asked for the natural way. "The natural way," Dewey said, "Would be for God to send down bands of angels to visit every single public school and transform them into places of true learning." "Good heavens," gasped the reformer. "What then is the miraculous way?" "Ah," said Dewey, "The miraculous way would be for the people to do it themselves."

-- Unknown, http://www.uvm.edu/~dewey/monographs/glomono.html, Unknown

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

-- Confucius, Unknown , Unknown

Advancement will come with hard work

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

-- Amelia E. Barr, 1831-1919, All the Days of My Life, 1913

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

-- John Dewey, Unknown , Unknown

All things are difficult before they are easy.

-- Thomas Fuller, Unknown , Unknown

All work is empty save when there is love.

-- Kahlil Gibran, Unknown , Unknown

All your hard work will soon pay off.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Always assume that your assumption is invalid.

-- Robert F. Tatman, Unknown , Unknown

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living and doesn't teach them how to live.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired-- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be. The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph, conspire to register the facts in his memory in a way that no mere information heard from a teacher, or read in a schoolbook, can be registered.

-- Herbert Spencer, Unknown , Unknown

As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

-- Will Durant, Unknown , Unknown

At the end of your life you will never regret not having passed one more test, winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend or a parent.

-- Barbara Bush, b. 1925, in Toby Cole and Helen Krich, Actors on Acting, 1970

Attain deliverance in disturbances.

-- Kyong Ho, (1849-1912), Unknown

Baruch's Observation: If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Be prepared.

-- Boy Scout Motto, Unknown , Unknown

Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

-- Justice Antonin Scalia, Unknown , Unknown

Beauty is in the details.

-- German proverb, Unknown , Unknown

Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

-- Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose, Unknown

Before enlightenment, there is much carrying of water; after enlightenment, there is much carrying of water.

-- Buddhist saying, Unknown , Unknown

Believing in the Tooth Fairy is easier than trying to figure out how else the money gets under your pillow.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Better build schoolrooms for "the boy" Than cells and gibbets for "the man."

-- Eliza Cook, Unknown , 1818-1889

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Blessed are those who are flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

-- Lyndon Baines Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

-- Stephen V. Benet, Unknown , Unknown

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they are written.

-- Henry David Thoreau, Unknown , Unknown

But this is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

-- Euripedes, Unknown , Unknown

By ignorance the truth is known.

-- Henry Suso, The Little Book of Truth, 1300-1365

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

-- Plutarch, Life of Marcus Cato, Unknown

Chance favors the prepared mind.

-- Louis Pasteur, Unknown , Unknown

Change is good. You go first.

-- Scott Adams., Dilbert cartoon., Unknown

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

-- James Baldwin, Unknown , Unknown

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

-- Pablo Picasso, Unknown , Unknown

Confidence is simply that quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face.

-- Leonard Binder, Unknown , born August 20, 1927

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

-- Berenson Bernard, Unknown , Unknown

Context is always as relevant as concept.

-- Terry Olson, Focus on Faculty, Vol 15(2), Brigham Young University Faculty Center, 2005

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

Courageous risks are life giving, they help you grow, make you brave and better than you think you are.

-- Joan L. Curcio, Unknown , Unknown

Crawling still gets you there.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

-- Anna Freud, Unknown , Unknown

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple’s substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman’s substitute for conscience. It is the communicator’s substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

-- Russell Lynes, Unknown , Unknown

D'oh!

-- Homer Simpson, Matt Groening cartoon, Unknown

Defining your criteria for success is easier when you suck. As you get better, it becomes harder. The steps are smaller and smaller.

-- Bode Miller, Olympic skier,, Newsweek interview, p. 44, January 23, 2006

Description of a grade: An inadequate report of an inaccurate judgment by a biased and variable judge of the extent to which a student has attained an undefined level of mastery of an unknown proportion of an indefinite material.

-- P. Dressel, p. 12 "Grades: One more tilt at the windmill." in A.W. Chickering (Ed.), Bulletin. Memphis: Memphis State U. Center for the Study of Higher Education, Dec. 1983

Did you ever stop to think and then forget to start again?

-- A. A. Milne, Unknown , Unknown

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Unknown , Unknown

Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.

-- Moses Ibn Ezra, Unknown , Unknown

Do more than listen; understand.

-- John H. Rhoades, Unknown , Unknown

Doctrina Lux Mentis. Learning is the light of the mind.

-- Centre College motto, Unknown , Unknown

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

-- Horace, Carmina. IV. 4. 33., Unknown

Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. They're easier to handle than dumb mistakes.

-- Carolyn Coats, Things Your Mother Always Told you but You Didn't Want to Hear, 1994

Don't expect a stranger to wipe your nose.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Don't go through life, grow through life.

-- Eric Butterworth, Unknown , Unknown

Don't limit a child to your own learning for they were born in another time.

-- Olde rabbinical saying, Unknown , Unknown

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

-- Mary Manin Morrissey, Unknown , Unknown

Don’t know much about history. Don’t know much biology. Don’t know science books. Don’t know about the French I took. But I do know I love you And I do know if you love me too, what a wonderful world this would be. Don’t know much about geography. Don’t know much trigonometry. Don’t know much about algebra. Don’t know what a slide ruler is for. But I do know one and one is two And if this one could be with you, what a wonderful world this would be. Now I don’t claim to be an A student. But I’m trying to be. Maybe by being an A student, baby, You’ll give your love to me.

-- Joel Landry, song "What a Wonderful World", Unknown

Each path is only one of a million paths. Therefore, you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path. If you feel that you must not follow it, you need not stay with it under any circumstances. Any path is only a path. There is no affront to yourself or others in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do. But your decision to keep on the path or to leave it must be free of fear and ambition. I warn you: look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question. It is this: does this path have a heart? All paths are the same. They lead nowhere. They are paths going through the brush or into the brush or under the brush. Does this path have a heart is the only question. If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, then it is of no use.

-- Carlos Castaneda, Unknown , Unknown

Education cannot be conferred. Whether in school or out, learning is a do-it-yourself proposition.

-- Wheeler McMillen, Unknown , Unknown

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

-- Malcolm X, Unknown , Unknown

Education is the art of the utilization of knowledge. This an art very difficult to impart…We must beware of what I will call 'inert ideas' that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized or tested or thrown into fresh combinations.

-- Alfred North Whitehead, Aims of Education and Other Essays, NY: MacMillan, 1924

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

-- Marquis of Halifax, Unknown , Unknown

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

-- B.F. Skinner, Unknown , Unknown

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

-- Pete Seeger, Unknown , born 1919

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

-- Woody Allen, Unknown , Unknown

Even babies like to grab for things just beyond their reach.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem that is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.

-- Thomas Szasz, Unknown , 1973

Every job is a self-portrait of the individual who did it.

-- Carolyn Coats, Things Your Mother Always Told you but You Didn't Want to Hear, 1994

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

-- Edward Gibbon, Unknown , Unknown

Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

-- E.W. Howe, Unknown , Unknown

Every time you swim out to the rock, it gets a little closer.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

-- Confucius, Unknown , Unknown

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

-- Friedrich Schlegel, Unknown , 1798

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

-- Erica Jong, Unknown , Unknown

Everyone[Everybody] is ignorant only on different subjects.

-- Will Rogers, Unknown , Unknown

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

-- Marva Collins, Unknown , Unknown

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

-- Benjamin Franklin, Unknown , 1706-1790

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Experience is what you get when you expected something else.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Facing up to your mistakes keeps you from repeating them. Successful people make plenty of mistakes but hardly ever the same one twice.

-- Debra A. Benton, Lions Don't Need to Roar. Warner Books, 1993

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

-- John Wood, Unknown , Unknown

Failure is an experience, not an individual.

-- Geneva Gay, Culturally Responsive Teaching, Unknown

Failure is not the end but is the opportunity to try again.

-- Tommy Phelps, Western Kentucky University student, Unknown , Unknown

Failures are divided into 2 classes those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

-- John Charles Salak, Unknown , Unknown

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take up ranks with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, for they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat

-- Theodore Roosevelt., Unknown , Unknown

Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.

-- J. Krishnamurti, On Education., Unknown

First we form habits. Then they form us.

-- Dr. Rob Gilbert, Unknown , Unknown

Flowers and pricker bushes grow out of the same dust.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work, patience, love.

-- John Burroughs, Unknown , Unknown

For every complex question there is a simple answer -- and it's wrong.

-- H.L. Mencken, Unknown , Unknown

For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths.

-- II Timothy 4: 3-4, New Revised Standard Version Bible, Unknown

For you to be successful sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

-- Rita Mae Brown, Unknown , Unknown

From the day I was born, I began to learn my lessons. I learned it is possible to be a Christian and a white southerner simultaneously; to be a gentlewoman and an arrogant callous creature in the same moment; to pray at night and ride a Jim Crow car the next morning and to feel comfortable doing both. I learned to believe in freedom, to glow when the word democracy was used, and to practice slavery from morning to night.

-- Lillian Smith, Unknown , 1897-1966

Galinda was slow coming to terms with actual learning. She had considered her admission into Shiz University as a sort of testimony to her brilliance, and believed that she would adorn the halls of learning with her beauty and occasional clever sayings. She supposed, glumly, that she had meant to be a sort of living marble bust: This is Youthful Intelligence; admire Her. Isn't She lovely?

-- Gregory Maguire, Wicked, p. 75, NY: HarperCollins Pub., 1995

Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving.

-- email humor, Unknown , Unknown

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

-- Benjamin Franklin, Unknown , Unknown

Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there; make it happen.

-- Lee Iacocca, Unknown , Unknown

Getting lost teaches you how to read a map.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.

-- Henry David Thoreau, Unknown , Unknown

Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a doorway opening onto greater depth of understanding.

-- Peter Block, Unknown , Unknown

Half of being smart is knowing what you’re dumb at.

-- David Gerrold, Unknown , Unknown

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

-- Thomas Macaulay, Unknown , Unknown

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades and he doesn't know the meaning of a lot of words.

-- Bobby Bowden, Florida State footballer, on player Reggie Herring, Unknown , Unknown

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

-- Sydney Smith, on Thomas Babington Macaulay, Unknown , Unknown

He who returns from a journey is not the same as he who left.

-- Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

He who trains his tongue to quote the learned sages, will be known far and wide as a smart ass.

-- Howard Kandel, Unknown , Unknown

How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?

-- Vachel Lindsay, Unknown , Unknown

Human beings are not born once and for all on the days their mothers give birth to them...Life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

-- Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See, Unknown

I always intended to do things, but life always got in the way of my intentions, and I was like a passenger riding in a getaway car, randomly throwing assignments out the window like a drive-by criminal.

-- Jessica McMeans, undergraduate describing her term, April 2005

I always intended to do things, but life always got in the way of my intentions, and I was like a passengr riding in a getaway car, randomly throwing assignments out the window like a drive-by criminal.

-- Jessica McMeans, undergraduate, personal review of her coursework, April, 2005

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

-- Winston Churchill, Unknown , Unknown

I am never afraid of what I know.

-- Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877

I am not a teacher--only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead--ahead of myself as well as of you.

-- George Bernard Shaw, "Getting Married", Unknown

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

-- Helen Keller, Unknown , Unknown

I am still learning. Ancora Imparo.

-- Michelangelo, age 87, Unknown , 1475-1564

I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a-learning of his alphabet.

-- Elizabeth I of England, on Philip II of Spain, Unknown , Unknown

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and non-learners.

-- Benjamin Barber, Unknown , Unknown

I don't know whether this is the best of times or the worst of times, but I assure you it's the only time you've got. You can either sit on your expletive deleted or pick a daisy.

-- Art Buchwald, Unknown , 1976

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learned.

-- Patrick White, Unknown , Unknown

I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game's winning shot…and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why…I succeed.

-- Michael Jordan, Unknown , Unknown

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

-- Dudley Field Malone, Unknown , Unknown

I hear and I forget. I see and remember. I do and I understand.

-- Chinese Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

I keep six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.

-- Rudyard Kipling, Unknown , Unknown

I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.

-- George Washington Carver, Unknown , Unknown

I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.

-- Helen Keller, Unknown , Unknown

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.

-- William Blake, Unknown , Unknown

I must study politics and war that my sons will have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

-- John Adams, Unknown , Unknown

I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

-- Sarah Louise (Sadie) Delany, Having Our Say, 1992

I see no use in developing my mind and soul without bringing my body along for the ride--after all, it was my body and its pain...that led me to be ... the person I am today.

-- Scott Andrew Smith, "On the Desk" in The Teacher's Body. p. 33 Freedman, D & Holmes, M Eds., Albany: State U. of NY Press, 2003

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962,, Today's Health, October 1966

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

-- Gilda Radner, Unknown , Unknown

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said 'I don't know.'

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , November 30, 1835

I was like probably most of you. I did not graduate Summa Cum Laude or Magna Cum Laude, I graduated, Oh Thank You Lordy!

-- Andrew Young, Mayor of Atlanta, Unknown , 1987

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have is that I didn't study my Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

-- Dan Quayle, Unknown , Unknown

I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

-- Bill Ayers, Unknown , Unknown

I'm as confused as a baby in a topless bar.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility.

-- Nikki Giovanni, Unknown , 1943-

I'm not afraid of getting my nose and ears cut off, I want to keep studying.

-- Nooria, 12 year old Afghan girl, in response to violence & threats from the Taliban, Newsweek, p. 34, June 26, 2006

I'm struggling along in a state of confusion.

-- E. King-Smith, Unknown , 1996

I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

-- Lilly Tomlin, Unknown , Unknown

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

If I had to reduce all of educational psychology to just one principle, I would say this: The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.

-- Ausubel, D.P.; Novak, J.D.; Hanesian, H., epigraph to "Educational Psychology." originally, 1968, Werbel & Peck, now 1978 Holt, Rinehart, & Winston., 1968

If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

-- Michelangelo Buonnarroti, Unknown , Unknown

If the brain were simple enough for us to understand it, we would be too simple to understand it.

-- Ken Hill, Unknown , Unknown

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

-- Latin proverb, Unknown , Unknown

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

-- Gail Sheehy, Unknown , 1937-

If you are made of the right stuff, a hard fall results in a high bounce.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

If you cain't bear no crosses, You cain't wear no crown.

-- African-American spiritual, Unknown , Unknown

If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

-- Toni Morrison, Unknown , Unknown

If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway…The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway….give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.

-- Mother Teresa, Meditations from a Simple Path, Unknown

If you do not expect it, you will not find the unexpected, for it is hard to find and difficult.

-- Heraclitus, Unknown , Unknown

If you don't open your mouth, you don't get fed.

-- Old Saying, Unknown , Unknown

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.

-- Marcus Garvey, Unknown , Unknown

If you keep missing, get closer to the basket.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If you look in the right places, you can find good offerings.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

If you think education is expensive--try ignorance.

-- Derek Bok, Unknown , Unknown

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

-- Mary Kay Ash, Unknown , Unknown

If you wait until you're really sure, you'll never take off the training wheels.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If you want pancakes for breakfast, offer to help make them.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If you want to become the greatest in your field, no matter what it may be, equip yourself to render greater service than anyone else.

-- Clinton Davidson, Unknown , Unknown

If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If you're looking to find the key to the Universe, I have some bad news and some good news. The bad news is - there is no key to the Universe. The good news is - the universe has been left unlocked.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

If you're not scared to death, you haven't collected enough information.

-- Eileen Mason, Unknown , Unknown

Ignorance never settles a question.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

-- Eric Hoffer, Unknown , 1973

In all things we learn only from those we love.

-- Goethe, Unknown , Unknown

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.

-- John Ruskin, Unknown , Unknown

In reality, serendipity accounts for 1 percent of the blessings we receive in life, work, and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

-- Peter McWilliams, Unknown , Unknown

In seeking knowledge, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, and the fifth--teaching others

-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Unknown , Unknown

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

-- Shunru Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Weatherhill Pub., April 1, 1973

In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.

-- Robert F. Goheen, Commencement Address, June 18, 1966

In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

-- E. Hoffer, Unknown , Unknown

In vain have you acquired knowledge if you have not imparted it to others.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Unknown , Unknown

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

-- Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, Aphorism, 1905

Information can’t be put in any container that isn’t leaky.

-- Spider Robinson, Unknown , Unknown

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

-- Nomi Whalen, Unknown , born 1932

Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.

-- Cheikh Anta Diop, Unknown , Unknown

It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

-- August Wilson, Unknown , Unknown

It feels a lot colder when you're shoveling snow than when you're building a snow fort.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

-- Rebecca West, Unknown , 1892-1983

It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.

-- R.D. Hitchcock, Unknown , Unknown

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy; to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be fully possessed of the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of passion, the energy of action.

-- George Eliot, Middlemarch, p. 206-7, Boston: Houghton Miflin. 1956, 1872

It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.

-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler, Unknown , Unknown

It is better to know nothing than to learn nothing.

-- Hebrew Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

It is better to learn late--than never.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

It is better to start late on the right job than to spend a frustrating and mediocre life in the wrong one.

-- M. T. Harrington, Unknown , 1952

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

-- Henri Frederic Amiel, Unknown , Unknown

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

-- Johann von Goethe, Unknown , Unknown

It is hard: to forget, to apologize, to save money, to be unselfish, to avoid mistakes, to keep your temper at all times, to think first and act afterwards, to maintain a high standard, to keep on keeping on, to shoulder the blame, to be charitable, to admit error, to take advice, to forgive. But it is right to do these things.

-- 'Newsletter' Newsletter, Unknown , 1994, February

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.

-- Jacob Bronowski, Unknown , Unknown

It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person’s behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.

-- Robert A. Heinlein, Unknown , Unknown

It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. Fas est ab hoste doceri.

-- Ovid, Metamorphoses. IV. 428, Unknown

It is neither harassment nor discriminatory treatment of a student to hold up to close criticism an idea or viewpoint the student has posited or advanced.

-- American Association of Univeristy Professors, subcommittee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, Freedom in the Classroom, June 2007

It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others--and less trouble.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

-- Descartes, Unknown , Unknown

It is not important to be the best…just do your best.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

-- Comte D'Artois (later Charles X), proclamation as he entered Paris as published in the "Moniteur", Unknown

It is not strange...to mistake change for process.

-- Millard Fillmore, Unknown , Unknown

It is one of the great pleasures of a student's life to buy a heap of books at the beginning of the autumn. Here, he fancies, are all the secrets.

-- Robert Lynd, Unknown , Unknown

It isn't what you know but the simple things you don't overlook.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

It's easier to see the mistake on someone else's paper.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

-- Vince Lombardi, Unknown , Unknown

It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

It's only November, but my brain is full.

-- Unknown undergraduate cited by Anne Matthews, Bright College Years, 1997

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

-- John Wooden, Unknown , born October 14, 1910

It’s my life and I’ll do what I want It’s my mind and I’ll think what I want. Show me I’m wrong, hurt me sometime But someday I’ll treat you refined.

-- The Animals, "It's my life", 1963?

It’s not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong, not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich, not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned, and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

-- Francis Bacon, Sr., Unknown , Unknown

Just say know.

-- Mary Mathrey, RN, Unknown , Unknown

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

-- Johann Wolfgan von Goethe, Unknown , Unknown

Knowledge is Power. Power Corrupts. Study Hard and Become Evil.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

-- C.G. Jung, Unknown , Unknown

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

-- John Kennedy, Unknown , Unknown

Learn what you love.

-- Boston University School for the Arts slogan., Unknown , 2000

Learning is a treasure which accompanies us everywhere.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Learning is like rowing upstream, not to advance is to drop back.

-- Chinese Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

-- Abigail Adams, letter to John Quincy Adams, May 8, 1780

Learning is not compulsory but neither is sur