"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 is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

-- Mohandas Gandhi, 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

Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.

-- Lyndon Johnson, 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 original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.

-- Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, 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

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 believe I have an unfair edge over most of my colleagues right now -- my mind works faster than my mouth does.

-- Tim Johnson, U.S. Senator from South Dakota,, at his first public appearance since recovering from a brain hemorrhage., Unknown

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

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it’s wrong.

-- Mo Udall, Unknown , Unknown

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

-- Jean Kerr, Unknown , born July 10, 1923

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

-- Stanley Kubrick, Unknown , born July 26, 1928

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

-- Truman's Law, Unknown , Unknown

If you can't hear your heart, listen to your own voice.

-- Greg Henry Quinn, 365 Meditations for Teachers, July 8, Unknown

If you complain of neglect of education in sons, what shall I say with regard to daughters, who every day experience the want of it?…If we mean to have heroes, statesmen, and philosophers, we should have learned women.

-- Abigail Adams, letter in Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife, Abigail Adams, During the Revolution (1875), August 14, 1776

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 fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

-- Jimmy Carter, 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 torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.

-- Fred Menger, Chemistry professor, (1937- )

If you try to clean up a cow patty when it is fresh, you'll get it all over yourself. But wait a few days and it will dry up and you can use it for second base.

-- unknown, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Eileen Mason, Unknown , Unknown

Ignorance is salvageable but stupid is forever.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Ignorance never settles a question.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Immortal gods! how much does one man excel another! What a difference there is between a wise person and a fool!

-- Terence, Act ii. Sc. 2, 1. (232.), Unknown

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

-- Napoleon Bonaparte, Unknown , 1769-1821

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 matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

-- Oscar Wilde, Unknown , Unknown

In any academic community there are scholars of whom it is said that they have twenty fresh ideas a day, ten of them quite mad, five naïve or stupid, three without point, and two exciting and potentially of great value. Most bureaucracies, seeking to homogenize their members, would not tolerate so low-level a return; any sound university will bear with eighteen expressions of madness, stupidity, and nonproductivity in exchange for two of great value.

-- Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, Unknown

In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.

-- Publius Terentius Afer, Unknown , Unknown

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 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 this country we spend 4 times the amount on beer more than we spend on books - that's why our bellies are bigger than our brains.

-- Roger Crawford, Unknown , 2002

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Spider Robinson, Unknown , Unknown

Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

-- Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects. Education, Unknown

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people’s values.

-- Gerald Brenan, Unknown , Unknown

Isn't education a process in which we are all confronted with positions that differ from our own and that require us to re-think what we think we know?

-- John Wise, Professional and Organizational Development listserv, Re: "Faith-Based Students" and...our practices, 13 Jan 2006

It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory.

-- Grover Cleveland, Unknown , Unknown

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 happy talent to know how to play.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

-- Francis Bacon, Unknown , 1561-1626

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 better to know some of the questions than all the answers.

-- J. Thurber, Unknown , Unknown

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 completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

-- Agatha Christie, Unknown , born September 15, 1890

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 good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier.

-- Thomas Robert Gaines, Unknown , Unknown

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 to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious

-- Arthur Bloch, Unknown , Unknown

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape -- not from our own time, for we are bound by that -- but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our own time.

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

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 no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must learn how to spot a stereotype, isolate a social cliche, and distinguish facts from propaganda, analysis from banter and important news from coverage.

-- Ernest Boyer, Turning Points: Preparing Youth for the 21st Century, 1989

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

-- Blaise Pascal, Unknown , born June 19, 1623

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

-- Descartes, Unknown , Unknown

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

-- Caron deBeaumarchais, Unknown , Unknown

It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.

-- C.W. Leadbeater, Unknown , Unknown

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

-- Oscar Wilde, Unknown , Unknown

It is the hope and dreams we have that make us great.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , 384-322 B.C.

It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own mind pulsates with the great ebbs and flows of popular delusion and emotion, the more admirably he performs his function. He may be an ass, but that is surely no demerit in a man paid to make asses of his customers.

-- H.L. Mencken, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

-- Andrew Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

It's not what is poured into a student that counts, but what is planted.

-- Linda Conway, Unknown , Unknown

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

Know thyself.

-- Thales, Unknown , Unknown

Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown , born August 28, 1749

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

-- Johann Wolfgan von Goethe, Unknown , Unknown

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Unknown , Unknown

Knowledge is a treasure but practice is the key to it.

-- Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

Knowledge is never a substitute for experience.

-- Greg Henry Quinn, 365 Meditations for Teachers, May 31, Unknown

Knowledge is power--especially if you know about the right people.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- C.G. Jung, Unknown , Unknown

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences…Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.

-- Anne Sullivan, Unknown , Unknown

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

-- John Ray, Unknown , Unknown

Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

-- Confucius, The Analects, Unknown

Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.

-- Evan Esar, Unknown , Unknown

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

-- Publius Syrus, Maxim 914, Unknown

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach or the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

-- Louisa May Alcott, Unknown , 1832-1888

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , 1835-1910

Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

-- John Adams, Unknown , Unknown

Let us learn how to dream, gentlemen, and then perhaps we will discover the truth.

-- Friedrich Kekule, speech upon receiving prize for discovery of structure of benzene, Unknown

Liberal Arts Major…Will Think for Money

-- Bob Levey's Washington column "Best T-shirts of the summer", Washington Post, Unknown

Librarians are the secret masters of the universe. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

-- Spider Robinson, Unknown , Unknown

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

-- Marge Piercy, Unknown , Unknown

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Like all other travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

-- Benjamin Disraeli, Unknown , Unknown

Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

-- Samuel Butler, Unknown , Unknown

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

-- Joseph Wood Krutch, Unknown , born November 25, 1893

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human understanding.

-- Ambrose Bierce, Unknown , born June 24, 1842

Man cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen.

-- Michel de Montaigne, Unknown , Unknown

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Unknown , Unknown

Measurements are not to provide numbers but insight.

-- Ingrid Bucher, Unknown , Unknown

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar, Unknown

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

-- Winston Churchill, Unknown , Unknown

Mind like a steel trap - rusty and illegal in most states.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.

-- Sir James Dewar or Thomas Dewar, Unknown , Unknown

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

-- Grover Cleveland, Unknown , Unknown

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

-- Aldous Huxley, Unknown , Unknown

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

-- James Harvey Robinson, Unknown , Unknown

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

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

Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor.

-- Robert Frost, Unknown , 1874-1963

Most of us would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

My commitment is to truth, not consistency.

-- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Unknown , Unknown

My ideas on teaching and learning focus on small 'd' democratic values, by which I mean a respect for diversity, a respect for the potential of each individual person, a respect for opposing points of view, and a respect for considerable intellectual vigor. My concern is with how students become critical thinkers and problem solvers, which is what a democratic society needs.

-- Deborah Willen Meier, Unknown , Unknown

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.

-- Ashleigh Brilliant, Unknown , Unknown

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

-- Helen Gurley Brown, Unknown , b. 1922

Never accept the initial premise of the opposition.

-- John W. Campbell, Unknown , Unknown

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

-- Richard Whately, Unknown , Unknown

Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

-- Sandra Carey, Unknown , Unknown

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled, the humiliating question arises: why then are you not taking part in them?

-- H.G. Wells, Unknown , Unknown

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

-- La Bruyere, Unknown , born August 16, 1645

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown

No brain is stronger than its weakest think.

-- Tom Masson, Unknown , 1866-1934

No one wants advice-- only corroboration.

-- J. Steinbeck, Unknown , Unknown

No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

-- W.H. Auden, Unknown , Unknown

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

-- Democritos of Abdera, Unknown , Unknown

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

-- Napolean Bonaparte, Unknown , Unknown

Now there sits a man with an open mind. You can feel the draft from here.

-- Groucho Marx, about his brother Chico Marx, Unknown , Unknown

Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive.

-- Sir Walter Scott, Unknown , Unknown

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

-- John Adams, Unknown , Unknown

On Artificial Intelligence: The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

-- B.F. Skinner, Unknown , Unknown

On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

-- Claude Debussy, Unknown , Unknown

One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.

-- Woodrow Wilson, Unknown , Unknown

One draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

-- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Sc. 5., Unknown

One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he asked the right question, so he spent a portion of his time meditating over what he might ask Mrs. Walker and how he might phrase the question.

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

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life is laughter.

-- Joseph Anderson, Unknown , Unknown

One who has imagination without learning, has wings without feet.

-- Joseph Joubert, Unknown , Unknown

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

-- Miguel Unamuno, Unknown , Unknown

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorism, 1905

Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

-- N.D. Hillis, Unknown , Unknown

Original ideas allow you to meet talented people.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

-- Maya Angelou, Unknown , Unknown

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

-- Robert Browning, Unknown , Unknown

Our differences are politics. Our agreements are principles.

-- William McKinley, Unknown , Unknown

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

-- Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm, 1883

People who spout platitudes have attitudes that allow no latitude.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader--occasionally in the right direction.

-- Alexander Chase, Unknown , Unknown

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

-- Laurette Taylor, on actors, in Toby Cole and Helen Krich, (1970), Actors on Acting., lived 1887-1946

Philosophical habits of mind do not come quicker through fiber optics. Clear thinking is not aided by better dot resolution. Understanding ourselves and feeling for others does not come with a software upgrade.

-- Linda Ray Pratt, Unknown , Unknown

Philosophical habits of mind do not come quicker through fiber optics. Clear thinking is not aided by better dot resolution. Understanding ourselves and feeling for others does not come with a software upgrade.

-- Linda Ray Pratt, President, AAUP., Academe, Nov/Dec 1994

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

-- Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892-1950, Pity Me Not, 1922

Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process. He distrusted writing because the settled character of the written word makes it look as if truth can be fixed and made to stand still. It is worth remembering that this greatest advocate of the objective reality of truth also believed that our access to that truth was sustained in reasoned discussion.

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

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

-- Heywood Broun, Unknown , born December 7, 1888

Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

-- John Maynard Keynes, Unknown , born June 5, 1883

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

-- Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles; they toughen and make strong.

-- Norman Vincent Peale, Unknown , Unknown

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of consciousness that created them.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown

Queen Victoria was like a great paperweight that for half a century sat upon men's minds and when she was removed their ideas began to blow all over the place haphazardly.

-- H.G. Wells, Unknown , Unknown

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider

-- Francis Bacon, Of Studies, 1605

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.

-- Marva Collins, Unknown , Unknown

Reading books is an antidote to urgency and chaos because it cannot be rushed. Every book has its own rhythm and a physical intimacy that E-mail and similar instant information can never achieve. Media glut often confuses information with understanding. Just when you seem to be most pressed, books miraculously expand time for reflection, cogitation, and mental rest.

-- Rchard E. Cytowic, The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Unknown

Reading is to the mind that exercise is to the body.

-- Richard Steele, The Tatler, No. 147, Unknown

Reading without thinking is as nothing, as a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes one think.

-- Louis L'Amour, Unknown , Unknown

Remember when family meals were carefully thought out instead of thawed out?

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Remember, any jackass can kick over the barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

-- Tip O'Neil quoting Sam Rayburn, former Speaker of the House, Unknown , Unknown

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

-- William O. Douglas, Unknown , Unknown

Rules are the solutions to yesterday's problems.

-- Button, Unknown , Unknown

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be.

-- James P. Hogan, Code of the Lifemaker, Unknown

Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

-- George Washington Carver, Unknown , Unknown

Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.

-- Jean Cocteau, Unknown , born July 5, 1889.

Sittin' in the classroom, Thinkin' it's a drag, Listenin' to the teacher Just ain't my bag.

-- Brownsville Station, song "Smokin' in the Boys' Room", Unknown

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

-- Will Durant, Unknown , Unknown

So many a good story is ruined by over reliance on truth.

-- James Gordon Bennett, Unknown , born Sept 1, 1795

Societies that don't eat people are fascinated by those that do.

-- Ronald Wright, Unknown , Unknown

Some minds are eager for any change, and some are angry at any.

-- M. Woolsey Stryker, Unknown , 1894

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

-- Elizabeth Kenny, 1886-1952, And They Shall Walk with Martha Ostenso, 1943

Some things are stored in the heart and not in the mind.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

-- Satchel Paige, Unknown , Unknown

Sometimes you think in order to act, sometimes you act in order to think.

-- Lee Shulman, Unknown , Unknown

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

-- Sam Rayburn, Washingtonian, November 1978

Sparse surroundings create room for the mind.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do nothing.

-- Scott Simon on the 1990 massacre of 8,000 over the course of 2 days that was watched by world governments via satellite and radio, commentary, National Public Radio Weekend Edition, June 16, 2005

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it well and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

-- Thomas Jefferson, Unknown , Unknown

Stop talking so much. You never see a heavy thinker with his mouth open.

-- George Washington Carver, Unknown , Unknown

Strategy is better than strength.

-- Hausa Legend, Unknown , Unknown

Stupid, stupider, stupidest, how stupid can it be? But when I really thought about it, the stupid one was me!

-- unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

-- Mary Shelley, in Matthew Arnold (1888) Essays in Criticism Second Series, 1797-1851

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown

Tell me, I'll forget. Show me, I may remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.

-- Old Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

-- Doris Lessing, Unknown , Unknown

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

-- George Santayana, Unknown , Unknown

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

-- Jane Wagner, Unknown , Unknown

The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse. [With reference to the Algonquin "Round Table"]

-- Groucho Marx., Unknown , Unknown

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

-- Oscar Wilde, Unknown , born October 16, 1954

The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.

-- Paul Valery, Unknown , born October 30, 1871

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

-- William James, Unknown , Unknown

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.

-- John Maynard Keynes, Unknown , Unknown

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.

-- Chinese Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

-- Hellen Keller, Unknown , Unknown

The best learners... often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.

-- Stephen Brookfield, Unknown , Unknown

The best teachers and researchers are all "intellectual entrepreneurs." They're in the business of creating new information, new ways of thinking, new ways of seeing their particular discipline.

-- David L. Hildebrand, AACU: Peer Review, Vol. 7, No. 3 (cited in Tomorrow's Professor, Msg. # 687), Spring 2005

The best way to forget all your troubles is to wear tight shoes.

-- E-mail humor, Unknown , Unknown

The chief cause of problems is solutions.

-- Eric Sevareid, Unknown , born November 26, 1912

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Unknown , born September 24, 1896.

The color of truth is gray.

-- Andre' Gide, Unknown , Unknown

The common condition of things that did not happen is that you cannot disprove them.

-- Morimer Zuckerman, USNews & World Report, 1998, January 12

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

-- Adlai Stevenson, Unknown , Unknown

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth."

-- Dan Rather, Unknown , Unknown

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it, not having it, to confess your ignorance.

-- Confucius, Unknown , Unknown

The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard progress. We fill the world with the children of 20th century A.D. fathers and 20th century B.C. mothers.

-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1860-1935, in Ida Husted Harper, History of Woman Suffrage, 1923

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

-- Kin Hubbard, Unknown , Unknown

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

-- Gloria Steinem, Unknown , 1934

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

-- William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Unknown

The fountain of wisdom flows through books.

-- Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us as a nation. If we were to have another contest in the near future, of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason's or Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.

-- Ulysses S. Grant, Unknown , Unknown

The full area of ignorance is not yet mapped. We are at present only exploring its fringes.

-- John Desmond Bernal, Unknown , born 1901

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

The function of wisdom is discriminating between good and evil

-- Cicero, Unknown , Unknown

The geek shall inherit the earth.

-- E-mail humor, Proverbs for the Millennium or Axioms for the Internet Age, Unknown

The goal of critical thinking is to examine your own assumptions and evidence, not just to criticize the thinking of others who disagree with you!

-- Unknown , Tomorrow's Professor, Message #745, 2006

The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why does it work?" The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, "How does it work?" The graduate with an Accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?" The graduate with an Arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?"

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

The grandest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

-- Winston Churchill, Sir, Unknown , 1874-1965

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

-- D. Boorstin, Unknown , Unknown

The heart is as important as the head in learning

-- K. Patricia Cross, Motivation: Er...Will That Be on the Test?, The Cross Papers, Number 5,, 2001, February

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality will always point in the right direction.

-- Harry S. Truman, Unknown , Unknown

The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up, and it doesn't stop until you get to school.

-- Milton Berle, Unknown , Unknown

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

-- Madame de Stael, Unknown , Unknown

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown

The job of a professor is to increase the level of agony in the classroom, so, for students, the only way out is to think.

-- possibly "Fred Friendly", Unknown , Unknown

The job of satire is to frighten and enlighten.

-- Richard Condon, Unknown , Unknown

The length of debate varies conversely with the complexity of the issue.

-- Robert Knowle, Unknown , Unknown

The liberal arts faculty have their feet firmly planted in midair.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

-- Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind. Preface., 1987

The library is a valuable institution, satisfying our thirst for knowledge and some peace and quiet.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

-- Bishop W. C. Mager, Unknown , Unknown

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin….

-- Frederick Douglass, 1849, Unknown

The mind grows by what it feeds on.

-- J. G. Holland, Unknown , Unknown

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

-- J. Arthur Thomson, Unknown , Unknown

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind

-- Maya Angelou, Unknown , 1928

The Old Pro…Often Wrong…Never in Doubt

-- Bob Levey's Washington column "Best T-shirts of the summer", Washington Post, Unknown

The one exclusive sign of a thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown

The only completely consistent people are dead.

-- Aldous Huxley, Unknown , Unknown

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.

-- Susan Sontag, Unknown , Unknown

The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

The only thing worse than learning the truth is not learning the truth.

-- David Gerrold, Unknown , Unknown

The passage to home is only a thought away, for the journey and destination are one.

-- Anonymous., Unknown , Unknown

The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, Unknown , Unknown

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

-- Miguel de Cervantes, Unknown , Unknown

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

-- Carl Jung, Unknown , born July 26, 1875

The perfect civil servant is the man who has a valid objection to any possible solution.

-- A. H. Keates, Unknown , Unknown

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.

-- Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, 1792

The problems we have created in the world today will not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , 1946

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

-- Edith Sitwell, Unknown , Unknown

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

-- Mortimer Adler, Unknown , Unknown

The pursuit of the truth shall set you free--even if you never catch up with it.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

-- Sydney J. Harris, Unknown , Unknown

The saying "He who teaches others, teaches himself" is very true, not only because constant repetition impresses a fact indelibly on the mind, but because the process of teaching itself gives deeper insight into the subject taught.

-- John Amos Comenius, Unknown , 1592-1670

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

-- Seymour Papert, Unknown , Unknown

The self-taught man selfdom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into doing as he himself has done.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

The specialism and visible success of the sciences have impressed some minds to such a degree that they have virtually identified the possibilities of human knowledge with the possibilities of science.

-- W.E. Abraham, Unknown , Unknown

The splendid discontent of God With chaos, made the world. And from the discontent of man The world’s best progress springs

-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "Discontent", n.d.

The text is a machine for producing meaning.

-- Octavio Paz, Unknown , Unknown

The things we sweep under the rug have a disconcerting habit of creeping out on the other side.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

-- A. A. Milne, Unknown , Unknown

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

-- Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948, in Margaret Mead, An Anthropologist at Work (1959), 1913

The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so.

-- Josh Billings, Unknown , Unknown

The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.

-- Robert Musil, Unknown , Unknown

The truth will set you free...but first it will piss you off.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

-- Herbert Spencer, Unknown , Unknown

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown

The university exists only to find and to communicate the truth.

-- Robert Maynard Hutchins, Unknown , Unknown

The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it--right or wrong--may be given.

-- Susanne K. Langer, Unknown , Unknown

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

-- Linus Pauling, Unknown , Unknown

The white fathers told us, "I think, therefore, I am" and the black mother within each of us--the poet--whispers in our dreams, I feel, therefore I can be free.

-- Audre Lorde, Unknown , Unknown

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown