"Do not be bewildered by the surfaces; in the depths all becomes law. And those who live the secret wrong and badly (and they are very many), lose it only for themselves and still hand it on, like a sealed letter, without knowing it."

-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet", letter of July 16, 1903., 1903

"I don't read very well. So I don't think I think very well either." Galinda smiled. "I dress to kill, though."

-- Gregory Maguire, Wicked, p. 80. NY: HarperCollins Pub, 1995

"Why should I reinvent the wheel?" My response is, "Because with online learning, we are trying to fly."

-- Patrick McCormick, Unknown , April 18, 2005

'Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' said Piglet 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh. After careful thought, Piglet was comforted by this.

-- A.A. Milne, Unknown , Unknown

... the mind works with ideas, not with information

-- Theodore Roszak, The Cult of Information, 2nd. ed. p. 88, 1994

...attacking a paper heavy with footnotes means that the dissenter has to weaken each of the other papers, or will at least be threatened with having to do so, whereas attacking a naked paper means that the reader and the author are of the same weight: face to face.

-- Bruno Latour, Science in Action - How to Follow Scientists & Engineers Through Society, 1987

...it doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are-- if it doesn't agree with experiment it's wrong.

-- R.P. Feynman, Unknown , Unknown

...lying matters. Truth is a rock; if you chip away at it enough, you wind up with gravel, then sand.

-- Anna Quindlen,commentary on untruthful book, "A Million Little Pieces,", Newsweek, p. 74, January 23, 2006

...the very notion of time management is a misnomer. For we cannot manage time. We can only manage ourselves in relation to time. We cannot control how much time we have; we can only control how we use it. We cannot choose whether to spend it, but only how.

-- Alec Mackenzie., The Time Trap. American Management Association., 1990

A book is a mirror: When a monkey looks in, no apostle can look out.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.

-- Sir Thomas George Barnett Cocks, Unknown , born 1907

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

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

A cynic is one who will laugh at anything as long as it isn't funny.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anyone to serve on a committee.

-- Fletcher Knebel, Unknown , Unknown

A diplomat is one who can tell a man he's open-minded when he means he has a hole in his head.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A fool must now and then be right by chance.

-- William Cowper, Conversation. Line 96., Unknown

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

-- William Blake, Unknown , Unknown

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

-- George Bernard Shaw, Unknown , 1856-1950

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

A good catchword can obscure analysis for 50 years.

-- Wendell Wilkie, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- William James, Unknown , Unknown

A half truth is a whole lie.

-- Yiddish Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

A little folly now and then is cherished by the wisest men.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are portals of discovery.

-- James Joyce, Unknown , Unknown

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

-- Oscar Wilde, Unknown , 1854-1900

A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself.

-- Richard Nixon, 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 nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr., Unknown , Unknown

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

-- Anatole France, Unknown , Unknown

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

-- Duke Ellington, Unknown , Unknown

A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

-- Charles F. Kettering, Unknown , Unknown

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

-- Charlotte Bronte, Unknown , Unknown

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

-- Henny Youngman, 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 slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.

-- Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792

A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.

-- Alexander Cannon, Unknown , Unknown

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

-- H.L. Mencken, Unknown , born September 12, 1880.

A witty saying proves nothing.

-- Voltaire, Unknown , Unknown

Academic staff rather enjoy coming to a conclusion, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.

-- Noel Gilroy Annan, Unknown , born December 25, 1916

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

-- Confucius, Unknown , Unknown

Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;…but experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

-- Katherine Anne Porter, Unknown , Unknown

Advice should be consumed between two thick slices of doubt.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

-- Evelyn Underhill, Unknown , Unknown

Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

-- E-mail humor, Unknown , Unknown

All great truths started out as blasphemies.

-- George Bernard Shaw, Unknown , Unknown

All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductible logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second part, on inductive logic, they are committed.

-- Morris Raphael Cohen, attributed in Meehl, P. E. Appraising and amending theories. Psychological Inquiry, 1, p. 110., 1990

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr., Unknown , Unknown

All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set to thought.

-- Edith Hamilton, Unknown , Unknown

All too often we are stuffing the heads of the young with the products of earlier innovations rather than teaching them to be innovative. We treat their minds as storehouses to be filled rather than as instruments to be used.

-- Robert Finch, Secretary of HEW, Unknown , 1970

Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

-- John Stuart Mill, Unknown , born May 20, 1806

Always assume that your assumption is invalid.

-- Robert F. Tatman, Unknown , Unknown

An approximate answer to the right question is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate question.

-- J. W. Tukey, Unknown , Unknown

An educated person is one who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.

-- Benjamin Stolberg, Unknown , Unknown

An expert is a person who can take something you already know and make it sound confusing.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

-- Niels Bohr, Unknown , Unknown

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.

-- Albert Camus, Unknown , Unknown

Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 33, 1995

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.

-- Dale Carnegie, Unknown , Unknown

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a person of some sense to know how to lie well.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , 1879-1955

Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

-- Bliss Perry, Unknown , Unknown

Anything could happen, now that I was no longer focused on my own importance at the center of the stage....I had been released from my expertise and was now another reader in a sea of limitless possibility.

-- William A. Reinsmith, Beginner's Mind. in College Teaching, 48(1). p. 12-14., Unknown

Appeal to reason in your advertising and you appeal to 4% of the human race.

-- Advice given at a 1923 conference on advertising., Unknown , Unknown

Aristotle noted that it was a mark of understanding to know what sorts of things can be proven and made precise, and what sorts, on the other hand, require our tolerance of vagueness and probable conclusions.

-- John Churchill, From the Secretary: Inspiring Conversations in The Key Reporter. Vol 67, Number 4. P. 2., Summer 2002

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, knows how difficult it is.

-- Willa Cather, 1873-1947, The Song of the Lark, 1915

As a neuroscientist, I hope some insect never bores a hole in my head and lays eggs in there on my brain because some day I'd be lying there thinking I had a really good idea but it would just be eggs hatching.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

As God once said, and I think rightly.…

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

As I think back and look forward, I see how nothing is unambiguous; nothing is without risk. Salvation does not come through simplicities.

-- A. Bartlett Giam[m]ati, Unknown , 1986

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

-- Josh Billings, Unknown , born 1818

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

-- Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa, 1928

As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I'm doing or why you're paying me so much money. What's important is that you continue to do so.

-- Hunter S. Thompson's Samoan Attorney, Unknown , Unknown

At the beginning of each lecture I say, 'Here's a set of events unexplainable by common sense, and I promise you'll be able to solve this mystery at the end of class.'

-- Robert Cialdini, quoted in Jaffe, E. "Those who can, teach." APS Observer, 17(9), p. 22, 2004

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

-- Edward Young, Night Thoughts, Line 417, Unknown

Attain deliverance in disturbances.

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

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

-- Mel Brooks, Unknown , born June 28, 1926

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

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

-- Colette, 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

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, -- that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

-- John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Unknown

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , 1879-1955

Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.

-- Hilaire Belloc, 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 to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

-- Jonathan Swift, 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 cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

Both teaching and rational inquiry, at their creative and inspired best, thus lead us to the very threshold of ultimate mystery and induce in us a sense of profound humility and awe.

-- Theodore Meyer Greene, Unknown , Unknown

Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever.

-- Unknown, email humor, Unknown

But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

-- Clare Booth Luce, 1903-1987, Life, October 16, 1970

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

Caution: Cape does not enable user to fly.

-- Batman Costume warning, Unknown , Unknown

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

-- Pablo Picasso, Unknown , Unknown

Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

-- William Allen White, Unknown , Unknown

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

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.

-- Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1848

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

-- Anna Freud, Unknown , Unknown

Critical thinking is to a liberal education as faith is to religion.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 24l, 1995

Curb an excessively independent attitude.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Cutbacks, on top of cutbacks already made, were in the air, though no one had yet used the word, which was a technical term and a magical charm to be used only at the time when items in the budget were actually being crossed off. It was a technical term in that you could refer to "shifting resources" and "reallocating funds" right up to the moment you told some guy that his research assistant was being fired and his new lab equipment was not being ordered, and it was a magical charm because it instantly transformed the past into a special, golden epoch, the grand place that all things had been cut back from.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 20-21., 1995

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

-- Lillian Hellman, 1905-1984, The Little Foxes, 1939

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

Deliberation is the work of many men; action, of one alone.

-- Charles de Gaulle, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- A. A. Milne, Unknown , Unknown

Differences challenge assumptions.

-- Anne Wilson Schaef, Unknown , 1934-

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 you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

-- Ogden Nash, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

Does fuzzy logic tickle?

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Does your train of thought have a caboose?

-- Unknown, Unknown , 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 be stupid. We have world leaders for that.

-- bumper sticker, Unknown , Unknown

Don't be too stupid to be lazy.

-- West Indies proverb, 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 presume that I will respond in a logical or rational manner.

-- on a Button, Unknown , Unknown

Dr. Lionel Gift was well aware that he could teach this class, and even entertain and please the customers, with no thought whatsoever. What he was saying to them now was like a television program on another channel that he could switch to whenever he wanted, just to see that it was still on, just to see that he, the talking head, was still adhering to the script. Somewhat more often, he checked the audience. Heads down, pencils moving, the occasional nod, all the way back to the last rows. It touched him, it really did, the imparting of knowledge, the initiation of a whole new group of customers into the domain of truth.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 143, 1995

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

Educated people do not simply believe; they believe what they can explain and cogently defend.

-- S.M. Cahn, Unknown , Unknown

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

-- Robert Frost, Unknown , born 1874

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellect, teach them to think straight, if possible.

-- Robert M. Hutchins, Unknown , Unknown

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence.

-- Robert Frost, 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 understanding relationships.

-- George Washington Carver, Unknown , Unknown

Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there is no known cure for a big head.

-- J. Graham, Unknown , Unknown

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

-- G.M. Trevelyan, Unknown , Unknown

Education: A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

-- George Bernard Shaw, Unknown , Unknown

Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

Education: That which reveals to the wise, conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

Education: The path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

Edward Arnold: "I changed my mind." Mae West: " Does it work any better?"

-- Edward Arnold, Mae West, movie, I'm No Angel, Unknown

Elementary, my dear Watson.

-- movie The Return of Sherlock Homes. Misattributed to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle., Unknown , 1929

Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.

-- Marlon Brando, Unknown , Unknown

Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration.

-- Donald E. Knuth, Computer Science Professor Emeritus, Stanford, http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html, Unknown

Endeavour to be innocent as a dove, but as wise as a serpent.

-- Ann Fanshawe, 1625-1680, Memoirs of Ann, Lady Fanshawe, c 1670

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.

-- Jeremiah: 28, Unknown , Unknown

Even a professor soon discovers how little he knows when a child begins asking questions.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Even when all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.

-- Bertrand (Arthur William) Russell), Unknown , born May 18, 1872

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 fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.

-- Harry Anderson, Unknown , Unknown

Every problem contains the seed of its own solution.

-- Norman Vincent Peale, Unknown , Unknown

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

Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

-- Marcel Proust, Unknown , born July 10, 1871

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

-- Gertrude Stein, Unknown , Unknown

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Everyone is brilliant some of the time, and no one is that way all the time.

-- Kathleen Cushmes, Unknown , Unknown

Everyone is wise, until he speaks.

-- Irish Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

-- Tolstoy, Unknown , Unknown

Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.

-- Erwin Knoll, Unknown , born July 17, 1931

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

-- Charles Caleb Colton, Unknown , Unknown

Excellence can be attained if you -Care more often than others think wise. -Risk more often than others think is safe. -Dream more often than others think is practical. -Expect more than others think is possible.

-- Janet Cagery, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Benjamin Franklin, Unknown , 1706-1790

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.

-- F. P. Jones, Unknown , Unknown

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

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

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- H.L. Mencken, Unknown , Unknown

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility fill.

-- Richard Clapton, Unknown , Unknown

For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong.

-- H. L. Mencken, Unknown , Unknown

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.

-- Robert Louis Stevenson, Unknown , bron November 13, 1850

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

Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt

-- Dorothy Parker, "Inventory," Enough Rope, 1927

General notions are generally wrong.

-- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter, March 1710

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

-- Thomas A. Edison, Unknown , Unknown

Genius is only a form of sustained patience.

-- Donald Murray, Unknown , Unknown

Get your mind set…..Confidence will lead you on.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

-- Robert Byrne, Unknown , born May 22, 1930

Godwin's Law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

-- Mike Godwin, Unknown , Unknown

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

-- William Saroyan, 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

Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog.

-- Joseph Conrad, Unknown , born December 3, 1857

Great discoveries and achievements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

-- Alexander Graham Bell, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- David Gerrold, Unknown , Unknown

Half the misery in the world is caused by ignorance. The other half is caused by knowledge.

-- Bonar Thompson, Unknown , born 1888

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

-- Thomas Macaulay, Unknown , Unknown

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

-- Storm Jameson, Unknown , 1891-1986

Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical questions?

-- Geroge E. Bradley, print media column, "Ever Wonder?", Unknown

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.

-- Abraham Lincoln, Unknown , Unknown

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

-- Abraham Lincoln., Unknown , Unknown

He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

-- Aneurin Bevan, on Neville Chamberlain, Unknown , Unknown

He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

-- Winston Churchill, on Stanley Baldwin, Unknown , Unknown

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts-- for support rather than illumination.

-- Andrew Lang, Unknown , Unknown

He who does not remember the past is condemned to forget where he parked.

-- Ann Landers column, Unknown , Unknown

He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.

-- Hypatia, in Elbert Hubbard, (1908) Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers, c. 370-415

He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, He is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows that he knows not, He is a child, teach him. He who knows and knows not that he knows, He is asleep, wake him. He who knows and knows that he knows, He is wise, follow him.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

He who laughs last thinks slowest!

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

He [Hercule Poirot] tapped his forehead. "These little grey cells. It is 'up to them.'"

-- Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920

Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.

-- Ralph Bunch, Unknown , 1904-1971

His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

-- Abraham Lincoln, on Stephen A. Douglas, his presidential opponent, Unknown , Unknown

His mind is so open that the wind whistles thought it.

-- Heywood Broun, Unknown , Unknown

Home is where you hang your memories.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

-- Franklin P. Jones, Unknown , Unknown

How does it feel To have you on your own With no direction home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone.

-- Bob Dylan, "Like a rolling stone", 196?

Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities-- the capacity to learn to walk upright, to use our brains, to speak, to relate to our fellow men, to construct and use tools, to explore the universe, and to express that exploration in religion, in art, in science, in philosophy.

-- Margaret Mead, 1901-1978, "Human Nature Will Flower If--" in the New York Times Magazine, April 19, 1964

Human nature is above all things--lazy.

-- Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811-1896, Household Papers and Stories, 1864

Humankind can't stand too much reality.

-- T.S. Eliot, Unknown , 1888-1965

I am never afraid of what I know.

-- Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877

I am not young enough to know everything.

-- Sir James M. Barrie, Unknown , born 1860

I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.

-- Anna Louise Strong, I Change Worlds, 1935

I can complain because rosebushes have thorns or rejoice because thornbushes have roses. It's all how you look at it.

-- J. Kenfield Morley, Unknown , Unknown

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

-- Sir Isaac Newton, Unknown , Unknown

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

-- attributed to Socrates, Unknown , Unknown

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.

-- John Cage, Unknown , Unknown

I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I do believe that what I was able to attain came to be because we put behind us (no matter how slowly) the dogmas of the past: to discover the truth of today; and perhaps the greatness of tomorrow.

-- Jackie Robinson, "This I believe" National Public Radio series, c1951

I don't have a solution, but I admire your problem.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

I fully realize that I have not succeeded in answering all of your questions…Indeed, I feel I have not answered any of them completely. The answers I have found only serve to raise a whole new set of questions, which only lead to more problems, some of which we weren’t even aware were problems. To sum it all up…In some ways I feel we are confused as ever, but I believe we are confused on a higher level, and about more important things.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

I got 99 problems, but the truth ain't one.

-- Steven Colbert, humorist, Unknown , Unknown

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

-- H.L. Mencken, Unknown , Unknown

I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.

-- Patricia Schroeder, Unknown , 1940-

I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.

-- Whitfield Diffie., Unknown , Unknown

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

-- Clara Barton, Unknown , Unknown

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

-- Septima Clark, in Brian Lanker (1989). I Dream a World., 1898-1987

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

-- Harold Macmillan, Unknown , Unknown

I have no riches but my thoughts, Yet these are wealth enough for me

-- Sara Teasdale, "Riches," Love Songs, 1917

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 live in terror of not being misunderstood.

-- Oscar Wilde, Unknown , Unknown

I must learn to love the fool in me—the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility and dignity but for my fool.

-- Dr Theodore I Rubin, Love Me, Love My Fool, McKay, 1976

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

-- Wilson Mizner, Unknown , 1876-1933

I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public--talent in privacy.

-- Marilyn Monroe, Ms. Magazine, August 1972

I tawt I taw a putty tat.

-- Tweety Bird, Warner Bros. cartoon, 1942

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 thinkin' bout a little white tank top sittin' right there in the middle by me. I was think' 'bout a long kiss, man, just gotta get goin' where the night might lead. I know what I was feelin', but what was I thinkin'?

-- Deric Ruttan, Brett Beavers, & Dierks Bentley, song "What was I thinkin'" on the Album: Dierks Bentley, 2003

I wish there was some way to turn down the stupidity on tv. There's a knob called 'brightness,' but that doesn't work.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

-- Bertrand Russell, Unknown , Unknown

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.

-- James A. Garfield, Unknown , Unknown

I yam what I yam.

-- Popeye, cartoon, 1930s

I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

-- Albert Camus, Unknown , Unknown

I'll not listen to reason….Reason always means what someone else has to say.

-- Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford, 1853

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 glad this question came up, in a way, because there are so many different ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right.

-- Robert Benchley, Unknown , born September 15, 1889

I'm struggling along in a state of confusion.

-- E. King-Smith, Unknown , 1996

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

-- John Galsworthy, Unknown , born August 14, 1867

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

-- L. Ron Hubbard, Unknown , Unknown

Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.

-- J. Harlen Bretz., 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 at first you don't succeed, you have two choices - try again or read the instructions.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a Socrates who is never content with the initial superficial response, but is always probing for finer distinctions, clearer examples, a more profound form of knowing. Our concept of knowledge has changed since classical times, but Socrates has provided us with a timeless educational goal - ever deeper understanding.

-- Howard Gardner, "The Academic Community Must Not Shun the Debate Over How to Set National Educational Goals" in The Chronicle of Higher Education, 8 Nov. 1989

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends--you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

-- Alice Duer Miller, Unknown , Unknown

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

-- Nikki Giovannit, 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 minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means of edification now deplorably neglected, for want of that cultivation which these intellectual advantages would confer.

-- Sarah M. Grimke, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman, 1838

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?

-- Lily Tomlin, Unknown , born September 1, 1939

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

-- Noam Chomsky, Unknown , Unknown

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? 5? no, 4. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

-- Abraham Lincoln, Unknown , Unknown