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

-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

-- Alan Blinder (Princeton), Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

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

-- William James, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

A half truth is a whole lie.

-- Yiddish Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Alexander Pope, Unknown , 1688-1744

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

-- Frederick Douglass, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Patricia Neale, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Plutarch, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A new voyage will fill your life with untold memories.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Terry Carr, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Marilyn Hamilton, Unknown , Unknown

A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

-- Charles F. Kettering, Unknown , Unknown

A schedule defends from chaos and whim.

-- Annie Dillard, Unknown , Unknown

A short pencil is better than a long memory.

-- unknown, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Kurt Lewin, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Sir Richard Livingston, Unknown , Unknown

A tiny hole can empty a great big bucket.

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

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

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

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

-- Confucius, Unknown , Unknown

Advancement will come with hard work

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

-- John Dewey, Unknown , Unknown

All things are difficult before they are easy.

-- Thomas Fuller, Unknown , Unknown

All work is empty save when there is love.

-- Kahlil Gibran, Unknown , Unknown

All your hard work will soon pay off.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Always assume that your assumption is invalid.

-- Robert F. Tatman, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Herbert Spencer, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

-- Will Durant, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

Attain deliverance in disturbances.

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

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

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Be prepared.

-- Boy Scout Motto, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Justice Antonin Scalia, Unknown , Unknown

Beauty is in the details.

-- German proverb, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

-- Buddhist saying, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

-- Eliza Cook, Unknown , 1818-1889

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Lyndon Baines Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Stephen V. Benet, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Henry David Thoreau, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Euripedes, Unknown , Unknown

By ignorance the truth is known.

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

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

-- Plutarch, Life of Marcus Cato, Unknown

Chance favors the prepared mind.

-- Louis Pasteur, Unknown , Unknown

Change is good. You go first.

-- Scott Adams., Dilbert cartoon., Unknown

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

-- James Baldwin, Unknown , Unknown

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

-- Pablo Picasso, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

-- Berenson Bernard, Unknown , Unknown

Context is always as relevant as concept.

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

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Joan L. Curcio, Unknown , Unknown

Crawling still gets you there.

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

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

-- Anna Freud, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Russell Lynes, Unknown , Unknown

D'oh!

-- Homer Simpson, Matt Groening cartoon, Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

-- A. A. Milne, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Moses Ibn Ezra, Unknown , Unknown

Do more than listen; understand.

-- John H. Rhoades, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Centre College motto, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

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

Don't expect a stranger to wipe your nose.

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

Don't go through life, grow through life.

-- Eric Butterworth, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Olde rabbinical saying, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Mary Manin Morrissey, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

-- Carlos Castaneda, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Wheeler McMillen, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Malcolm X, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Marquis of Halifax, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- B.F. Skinner, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Pete Seeger, Unknown , born 1919

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

-- Woody Allen, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

-- Thomas Szasz, Unknown , 1973

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

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

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

-- Edward Gibbon, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

-- E.W. Howe, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

-- Confucius, Unknown , Unknown

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

-- Friedrich Schlegel, Unknown , 1798

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

-- Erica Jong, Unknown , Unknown

Everyone[Everybody] is ignorant only on different subjects.

-- Will Rogers, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Marva Collins, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Benjamin Franklin, Unknown , 1706-1790

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

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Experience is what you get when you expected something else.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

-- John Wood, Unknown , Unknown

Failure is an experience, not an individual.

-- Geneva Gay, Culturally Responsive Teaching, Unknown

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

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

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

-- John Charles Salak, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Theodore Roosevelt., Unknown , Unknown

Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.

-- J. Krishnamurti, On Education., Unknown

First we form habits. Then they form us.

-- Dr. Rob Gilbert, Unknown , Unknown

Flowers and pricker bushes grow out of the same dust.

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

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

-- John Burroughs, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- H.L. Mencken, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

-- Rita Mae Brown, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Lillian Smith, Unknown , 1897-1966

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

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

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

-- email humor, Unknown , Unknown

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

-- Benjamin Franklin, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Lee Iacocca, Unknown , Unknown

Getting lost teaches you how to read a map.

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

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

-- Henry David Thoreau, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Peter Block, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- David Gerrold, Unknown , Unknown

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

-- Thomas Macaulay, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

-- Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Howard Kandel, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Vachel Lindsay, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See, Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

-- Winston Churchill, Unknown , Unknown

I am never afraid of what I know.

-- Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877

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

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

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

-- Helen Keller, Unknown , Unknown

I am still learning. Ancora Imparo.

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

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

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

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

-- Benjamin Barber, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Art Buchwald, Unknown , 1976

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

-- Patrick White, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Michael Jordan, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Dudley Field Malone, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Chinese Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Rudyard Kipling, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- George Washington Carver, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Helen Keller, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- William Blake, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- John Adams, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

-- Gilda Radner, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , November 30, 1835

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

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

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

-- Dan Quayle, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Bill Ayers, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Nikki Giovanni, Unknown , 1943-

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

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

I'm struggling along in a state of confusion.

-- E. King-Smith, Unknown , 1996

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

-- Lilly Tomlin, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

-- Michelangelo Buonnarroti, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Ken Hill, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Latin proverb, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Gail Sheehy, Unknown , 1937-

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

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- African-American spiritual, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Toni Morrison, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

-- Heraclitus, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Old Saying, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Marcus Garvey, Unknown , Unknown

If you keep missing, get closer to the basket.

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

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

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

If you think education is expensive--try ignorance.

-- Derek Bok, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Mary Kay Ash, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

-- Clinton Davidson, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Eileen Mason, Unknown , Unknown

Ignorance never settles a question.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Eric Hoffer, Unknown , 1973

In all things we learn only from those we love.

-- Goethe, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- John Ruskin, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Peter McWilliams, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

-- E. Hoffer, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Unknown , Unknown

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

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

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

-- Spider Robinson, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Nomi Whalen, Unknown , born 1932

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

-- Cheikh Anta Diop, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- August Wilson, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

-- Rebecca West, Unknown , 1892-1983

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

-- R.D. Hitchcock, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler, Unknown , Unknown

It is better to know nothing than to learn nothing.

-- Hebrew Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

It is better to learn late--than never.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

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

-- M. T. Harrington, Unknown , 1952

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

-- Henri Frederic Amiel, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Johann von Goethe, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

-- Jacob Bronowski, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Robert A. Heinlein, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Ovid, Metamorphoses. IV. 428, Unknown

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

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

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

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Descartes, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

-- Millard Fillmore, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Robert Lynd, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

-- Vince Lombardi, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

-- Francis Bacon, Sr., Unknown , Unknown

Just say know.

-- Mary Mathrey, RN, Unknown , Unknown

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Johann Wolfgan von Goethe, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

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

-- C.G. Jung, Unknown , Unknown

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

-- John Kennedy, Unknown , Unknown

Learn what you love.

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

Learning is a treasure which accompanies us everywhere.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Chinese Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

-- W. Edwards Deming, Unknown , Unknown

Learning is not so much an additive process, with new learning simply piling up on top of existing knowledge, as it is an active, dynamic process in which the connections are constantly changing and the structure reformatted.

-- K. Patricia Cross, Unknown , Unknown

Learning is wealth that can't be stolen.

-- Philippine Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

Learning isn’t a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

-- Robert A. Heinlein, Unknown , Unknown

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

-- John Ray, Unknown , Unknown

Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.

-- Haki R. Madhubuti, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Confucius, The Analects, Unknown

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.

-- Ambrose Bierce, Unknown , Unknown

Let every sluice of knowledge be open and set a-flowing.

-- John Adams, Unknown , Unknown

Life is a journey, not a destination.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Life IS a multiple choice test, only we first have to think up the possible choices, of which there are at a large, if not infinite number for each problem, and then we must choose among them.

-- Mike Chejlava, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Marge Piercy, Unknown , Unknown

Little things affect little minds.

-- Benjamin Disraeli, Unknown , Unknown

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

-- Gandhi, Unknown , Unknown

Live to learn and you will learn to live.

-- Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

Look about you, take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you, and you will learn to talk to them.

-- George Washington Carver, Unknown , Unknown

Look at the footprints you've made.

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

Love of wisdom, the guide of life. (Philosophia Biou Kubernetes)

-- Phi Beta Kappa motto, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Unknown , Unknown

Math is fun when you're counting jellybeans.

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

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

Miss Swanson, I don't understand the fourth problem. Of course, I don't really understand the other three problems, either...Actually, I don't understand math at all. Let's face it...I don't even understand school.

-- Peppermint Patty (Charles Schultz), Peanuts cartoon, Unknown

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

-- Aldous Huxley, Unknown , Unknown

Much have I learned from my teachers, more from my colleagues, but most from my students.

-- Talmud: Ta'anith, 7b, Unknown , Unknown

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

-- Helen Hayes, Unknown , Unknown

My worst moments have been in the classroom; I persevere because my best moments have been there, too.

-- 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

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

-- George Orwell, Unknown , Unknown

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story, 1937

No one ever has it "all together." That's like trying to eat "once and for all."

-- Marilyn Grey, Unknown , Unknown

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

-- Alice Walker, Unknown , Unknown

Nobody can pedal the bike for you.

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

None of the secrets of success will work unless you do.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it: "Nam non solum scire aliquid artis est, sed quaedam ars etiam docendi."

-- Cicero, DeLegibus, Unknown

o truly enjoy... [a university], the individual--student or faculty--must harbor a well-calibrated sense of annoyance at the institution, entering into a muted adversarial relationship…both in order to move the institution just that little bit away from what is was to what it could become, and also to assure at least the sense if not the reality of independence.

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

Oh No! Not another learning experience!

-- on a Button, Unknown , Unknown

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

-- Andre' Gide, Unknown , Unknown

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

-- Alexander Fleming, Unknown , Unknown

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment. If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Joseph Joubert, Unknown , Unknown

One's work may be finished some day, but one's education never.

-- Alexandre Dumas, pere, Unknown , Unknown

Only people who do things make mistakes.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Only the lesson which is enjoyed can be learned well.

-- Talmud, Unknown , Unknown

Only the mediocre can always be at their best.

-- Unknown, 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

Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been 80 years at it, and have not reached my goal.

-- Johann von Goethe, Unknown , Unknown

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

-- Robert Browning, Unknown , Unknown

Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

-- Boston-NY AIDS Ride., Unknown , c2000

Outside the classroom the student must live in the world; inside the classroom the student can own the world.

-- Greg Henry Quinn, 365 Meditations for Teachers, March 1., 1995

People fail forward to success.

-- Mary Kay Ash, Unknown , Unknown

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

-- Anne Sullivan, letter in 'Helen Keller, The Story of My Life', Oct. 30, 1887

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

-- Walter Bagehot, 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, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty books a year.

-- Wilfred Peterson, Unknown , Unknown

Readers may be divided into four classes: 1. Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also.

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Unknown , 1772-1834

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

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

Recognizing and confronting our history is important. Transcending our history is essential. We are not limited by what we have done, or what we have left undone. We are limited only by what we are willing to do.

-- George W. Bush, Unknown , Unknown

Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.

-- Susan Sontag, Unknown , 1983

Repetition is the mother of learning.

-- Kennet Oberly, Smithsonian, p. 60, 1995, May

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

Robert Pirsig... wrote about a student who had difficulty writing about his/her house. He asked the student to write about the door of the house. And if the student still couldn't think of anything to write, Persig would ask him/her to write about the door knob.

-- Robert Pirsig as reported by Richard Tiberius, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance as reported on POD@listserv.nd.edu by Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Unknown

Seek and ye shall find; find and ye shall want to seek a whole lot more.

-- Greg Henry Quinn, 365 Meditations for Teachers, March 17, 1995

Seek knowledge, even if it be in China.

-- Muhammad, Unknown , Unknown

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

-- Abraham J. Heschel, Unknown , Unknown

She is too fond of books, and it has addled her brain.

-- Louisa May Alcott, Unknown , Unknown

Shortcuts aren't always.

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

Silence is learned from the talkative, Tolerance from the intolerant, Generosity from the stingy and Kindness from the unkind.

-- Ann Landers column, Unknown , pre-1995

Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Since we are all likely to go astray the reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.

-- Sophocles, Unknown , Unknown

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

Skill comes from diligence.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.

-- W.E.B. Du Bois, Unknown , 1898

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

-- M. Woolsey Stryker, Unknown , 1894

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

-- E. C. McKenzie, Unknown , Unknown

Sometimes it's smart to be scared.

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

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

-- Lee Shulman, Unknown , Unknown

Soon you will be sitting on top of the world.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

-- Lord Byron, Unknown , Unknown

Sparse surroundings create room for the mind.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.

-- Unknown , Job. XII. 8., Unknown

Speed, quality, price. Pick any two.

-- James M. Wallace, Unknown , Unknown

Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

-- John Ortberg, The Life You've Always Wanted, P. 47, 1997

Students learn what they care about, from people they care about and who, they know, care about them.

-- Stanford Ericksen, Unknown , Unknown

Students learn... 10% of what they read 20% of what they hear 30% of what they see 50% of what they see and hear 70% of what they say or discuss with others 80% of what they do or experience personally 90% of what they say and do 95% of what they teach someone else

-- Source unknown, NOT William Glasser. NOT based on data., Original: Treichler, D. G. (1967). Are you missing the boat in training aids? Film and Audio-Visual Communication, 1, 14-16, 28-30, 48., See also http://www.willatworklearning.com/2006/0

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

-- Oliver Goldsmith, Unknown , Unknown

Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.

-- Jonathan Edwards, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Old Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.

-- Ray Bradbury, Unknown , Unknown

Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment.

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

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

-- Doris Lessing, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- William James, Unknown , Unknown

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.

-- B.B. King, Unknown , Unknown

The best way for a student to get out of difficulty is to go through it.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

The boy had just learned to plough with the family mule. He was in the field yelling out orders and trying to show his new skill. Finally his father stopped him and said, "How long have you been plowing?" "At least a couple of days," the young boy replied. "And how long has the mule been plowing?" the father asked. "At least fifteen years," the boy replied. "Don't you think you would be wise just to follow the mule."

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

-- Agnes Repplier, Unknown , Unknown

The color of truth is gray.

-- Andre' Gide, Unknown , Unknown

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

-- Ellen Parr, Unknown , Unknown

The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn’t doze and does, And that’s what teaching is and was.

-- David McCord, What Cheer, Unknown

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

-- Alfred North Whitehead, 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 eggs do not teach the hen.

-- Russian Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs…one step at a time.

-- Joe Girard, Unknown , Unknown

The essence of education is not to stuff you with facts but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it away.

-- Leo Buscaglia, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Confucius, Unknown , Unknown

The essential thing is not what I do but the significance that I attach to what I do. Once that happens, nothing is ordinary any more, and the most trivial reality is transfigured and takes on a divine and eternal dimension.

-- Boulad, All in Grace, Unknown

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

-- Gloria Steinem, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Gloria Steinem, Unknown , 1934

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

-- John Desmond Bernal, Unknown , born 1901

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day.

-- Gloria Steinem, b. 1934, Time, 1992

The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.

-- Robert Anton Wilson, 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 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 impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.

-- Richard Wright, Unknown , Unknown

The longer the test the better you feel when it's over.

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

The man who doesn't read has no advantage over the man who can't read.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

The mind grows by what it feeds on.

-- J. G. Holland, Unknown , Unknown

The most important questions in life are unanswerable--but approachable.

-- Jamie McKenzie, 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 object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

-- Robert Maynard Hutchins, Unknown , Unknown

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is whether it goes in or not.

-- Charles Barkley, Unknown , Unknown

The only jewel which will not decay is knowledge.

-- John Alfred Langford, Unknown , Unknown

The past cannot be regained, although we can learn from it; the future is not yet ours even though we must plan for it…Time is now. We have only today.

-- Charles Hummell, Unknown , Unknown

The path you're on looks different when you turn around.

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

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

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

The perfect method of learning is analogous to infection. It enters and spreads.

-- Leo Stein, Unknown , Unknown

The person who upsets you the most is your best teacher, because they bring you face to face with who you are.

-- Lynn Andrews, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

The primary mission of the university is not to train but to educate, not to do research or transfer technology, not to prepare students for jobs but to make them more discerning people, capable of seeing through the political and commercial hucksterisms of their times, of establishing their own values and finding their own meaning in life, of constructing and expressing their own compelling narratives.

-- James Downey, Unknown , Unknown

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

-- Carl Rogers, 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 quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box.

-- James Galway, Centrepiece, 2003

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 secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.

-- Anonymous, 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 shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

-- Carl Jung, Unknown , Unknown

The teacher can always tell when you did your homework on the bus.

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

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

-- Unknown , 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 truly educated never graduate.

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

-- Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown

The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, -- a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses…

-- Lucy Larcom, A New England Girlhood, 1889

The worst kind of poverty is ignorance.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Unknown , born August 29, 1809

There are many reasons for this, but perhaps the essence is captured best in the charming aphorism that education is a process of 'converting tangible resources into intangible resources

-- Toombs, W., Productivity: Burden of Success. Washington: AAHE, ERIC/Higher Education Research Report No. 2., 1973

There are no limits to the power of the human mind to construct new meaning from experience.

-- Novak and Gowin, Unknown , 1984

There are three ways to handle change. You can fight it and die; accept it and survive; or, lead it and prosper.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

There is a great difference between information and inspiration. You can get information by the cartful and the wagonful and the libraryful and the Sunday newspaperful, or in any other chunks or lumps that you choose. ..It is cheap; it is common; and it is worth about as much as it costs. But inspiration which comes from touching the life of truth itself is a priceless gem which comes only from close, devoted and continuous toil. A man knows when he has touched red-hot truth. He feels the shock…

-- Martin Grove Brumbaugh, Unknown , 1898

There is an immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

-- George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans], Adam Bede, 1859

There is no difference between living and learning…it is impossible and misleading and harmful to think of them as being separate.

-- John Holt, What Do I Do Monday? NY: Dutton, 1970

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

-- Thomas Edison or Sir Joshua Reynolds, Unknown , Unknown

There is no other beginning of learning than wonder.

-- Theaetetus, Unknown , Unknown

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

-- Harry S. Truman, Unknown , Unknown

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

-- Aldous Huxley, Unknown , Unknown

They don't tell you this in school, Everybody plays the fool.

-- Smokey Robinson, song, Unknown

They know enough who know how to learn.

-- Henry Adams, Unknown , Unknown

Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream

-- Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, Unknown , Unknown

Thinking is like loving or dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

-- Josiah Royce, Unknown , Unknown

Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

-- Walter Benjamin, Unknown , Unknown

Those who wander are not necessarily lost.

-- Joseph Stine, Unknown , Unknown

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

-- Lord Byron, Unknown , Unknown

Thought flows in terms of stories -- stories about events, stories about people, and stories about intentions and achievements. The best teachers are the best storytellers. We learn in the form of stories.

-- Frank Smith, Unknown , Unknown

Thought is more important than art….To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

-- Amiri Baraka, Unknown , Unknown

Three hops get you just as far as one leap.

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

Time is the best teacher, unfortunately it kills all of its students.

-- Bumper Sticker, Unknown , Unknown

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

-- Benjamin Disraeli, Unknown , Unknown

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

-- Carl Jung, Unknown , Unknown

To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

-- Buddha, Unknown , Unknown

To lose is to learn.

-- Anonymous., Unknown , Unknown

To see what is in front of one's nose requires constant struggle.

-- George Orwell, Unknown , Unknown

To teach is to learn.

-- Japanese Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

To those of you who recieved honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the "C" students. I say: You, too, can be president of the United States.

-- George W. Bush, Unknown , Unknown

Today I will remind myself and others that mistakes are lessons too.

-- Linda Conway, Unknown , Unknown

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

-- Henry J. Kaiser, Unknown , Unknown

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Unknown , Unknown

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown

Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

-- Henry van Dyke, Unknown , Unknown

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

-- Frank Outlaw, Unknown , Unknown

We are by nature observers and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown , Unknown

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act but a habit.

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

We begin to see that the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.

-- Anne Wilson Schaef, Unknown , Unknown

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at each other; until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

-- Richard M. Nixon, Unknown , Unknown

We cannot swing up a rope that is attached only to our own belt.

-- William Ernest Hocking, Unknown , Unknown

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

-- Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Unknown , Unknown

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

-- W. H. Auden, Unknown , 1940

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

-- Martha Grimes, Unknown , Unknown

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

-- Marcel Proust, Unknown , Unknown

We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

We have not...convinced our youth that the important thing about a degree is what they learn.

-- Wayne Willis, Lexington Herald Leader, p. A9,, 1996, October 4

We have nothing to fear but fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed effort to convert retreat into advance.

-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

We learn by practice.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

-- Daniel Boorstin, Unknown , Unknown

We must be the change we wish to see.

-- Mohandas Gandhi, Unknown , Unknown

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

-- Marian Wright Edelman, Unknown , 1939

We need to haunt the halls of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

-- Maya Angelou, b. 1928, Unknown , Unknown

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again--and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.

-- Florence King, The Portable Curmudgeon Redux. p. 209, 1992

Well born, well dressed and so-so in learning: "Bene Nati, Bene Vestiti, et Mediocriter Docti"

-- Etherlich, Unknown , 1995

What gets measured, gets managed.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

What if the Hokey Pokey is really what it's all about.

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

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step toward something better.

-- Wendell Phillips, Unknown , Unknown

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

-- Peter Ustinov, Unknown , Unknown

What lies before us and what lies beyond us is tiny compared to what lies within us.

-- Henry David Thoreau, Unknown , Unknown

What the pupils want to learn is as important as what the teachers want to teach.

-- Lois E. LeBar, Unknown , Unknown

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

-- Samuel Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Unknown , Unknown

What's the trick? There are three of them: A sense of real purpose, a sense of humor, and a sense of constant curiosity. Keep using those to the grave because learning really never ends.

-- Liz Carpenter, Unknown , 1994

Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.

-- Susan L. Taylor, Unknown , Unknown

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant, I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

-- Misattributed to Mark Twain., Unknown , Unknown

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

-- Cynthia Heimel, "Lower Manhattan Survival Tactics" in Village Voice, Unknown

When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.

-- Marva Collins, Unknown , Unknown

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

-- Chinese proverb, Unknown , Unknown

When times are calm, reflect. When times are difficult, be brave.

-- Korean Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

-- J. Lubbock, Unknown , Unknown

When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?

-- Pete Seeger, song lyrics "Where have all the flowers gone.", c1956

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

-- Lillian Smith, Unknown , 1897-1966

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was called cheating. The curriculum sent the clear message to me that learning was a highly individualistic, almost secretive, endeavor. My working class experience…was disparaged.

-- Henry A. Giroux, Border Crossing, NY: Routledge, Unknown , 1992

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

-- Henry C. Link, Unknown , Unknown

While we teach, we learn.

-- Seneca, Unknown , Unknown

Whiners usually play alone.

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

Wisdom is oft times nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

-- William Wordsworth, Unknown , Unknown

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.

-- H. G. Wells, Unknown , Unknown

With all your science, can you tell me how it is that light comes into the soul?

-- Henry David Thoreau, Unknown , Unknown

With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.

-- Lord Macaulay, Unknown , Unknown

With written words, however, " .they seem to talk to you as though they were intelligent, but if you ask them anything about what they say, from a desire to be instructed, they go on telling you the same thing forever."

-- Plato, Unknown , Unknown