Quotes by Writers - Page 166

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
John Ruskin
It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.
Hilaire Belloc
I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.
Libba Bray
The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)
Joseph Campbell
What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects.
Joseph Campbell
All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.
Nicolas Chamfort
Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how tobecome a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt yourparents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you cando is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestitehermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you'vebeen to college.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
Joseph Campbell
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
Dylan Thomas
I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.
John Adams
The only things you learn are the things you tame
Antoine De Saint Exupery
I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
John Adams
Ignorance is the parent of fear.
Herman Melville
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inkling of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living...In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution; but that fact should not blind us to another—namely, that in so doing we are learning a trade or a profession, but are not getting a liberal education as human beings.
James Truslow Adams
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G.Wells
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Abigail Adams
Instruction does much, but encouragement everyt
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Ideas can never be traced to any one source. They are tossed back and forth between people until the decision makers step in and choose what they think is a success formula.
Jack Kirby
Amazement is better than annoyance.
Agu Jaachynma N.E.
A Loveless Life is Like a Rudderless Ship Floating Uncontrollably in the Ocean of Life.
Agu
..., there are two things most important in preparing yourself for success. One is going the extra miles. Never settle for average. If other people study for one hour, study for five. If other run two kilometers, run three. If people give up in 10 seconds, don’t give up until 20. Always try to be more than ordinary...” ... “Another recipe is to never let yourself be influenced by elements outside of yourself. By anyone, anything, or any atmosphere. Meaning, don’t be sad, angry, or disappointed because of external factors. You are the ones with power over yourselves, do don’t give that power to others. Someone may hold a gun, but you have a choice, to feel fear or stand tall. You have choice, most deeply inside, and it has nothing to do with outside influence.” -101
Ahmad Fuadi
So choose your mood, in even the most messed-up situation. Because you are the masters and rulers of your own hearts. And the heart that always can be controlled by its owner is the heart of successful person,” -101
Ahmad Fuadi
Anything in the world can be endured, except a series of wonderful days.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Cain
I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate.
George Burns
You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.
Dejan Stojanovic
As long as we consider failure as an option, success is not going to be the only one choice.
Ahmed Alibage
Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beautyLying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered.
Dejan Stojanovic
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play; her labor and her leisure; her mind and her body; her education and her recreation. She hardly knows which is which. She simply pursues her vision of excellence through whatever she is doing, and leaves others to determine if she is working or playing. To herself, she always appears to be doing both.
Francois Rene De Chateaubriand
The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best
Russell Simmons
No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.
Robert W. Service
The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Elbert Hubbard
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid - one must also be polite.
Voltaire
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
Niccolò Machiavelli
It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.
Ellen DeGeneres
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
Niccolò Machiavelli
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared
H.G.Wells
Look at their arts, their power of turning stone into lifelike figures, and above all, the way in which they can transfer their thoughts to white leaves, so that others, many many years hence, can read them and know all that was passing, and what men thought and did in the long bygone. Truly it is marvelous.
G.A. Henty
You do realize as you grow older that almost nobody knows what they are talking about.
John Cleese
the true knowledge is disciplined and tested knowledge,—not the first thought that comes, so the true passion is disciplined and tested passion,—not the first passion that comes. The first that come are the vain, the false, the treacherous; if you yield to them they will lead you wildly and far, in vain pursuit, in hollow enthusiasm, till you have no true purpose and no true passion left. Not that any feeling possible to humanity is in itself wrong, but only wrong when undisciplined.
John Ruskin
All we can do is to prepare for a universal language that will go on changing for ever. We don’t know everything. We aren’t final. I wish we could make that statement a part of the Fundamental Law.
H.G.Wells
We seek knowledge only because we desire enjoyment, and it is impossible to conceive why a person who has neither desires nor fears would take the trouble to reason.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I agree with Abhijit Naskar that the path of tolerance is the only way—but it must be accompanied by continued pressure to break down barriers to access to information, so that our tolerance isn’t exploited to further the ends of totalitarian religious groups.
Daniel C. Dennett
In spiritually arid centuries, the only man to realize that the century is dying from thirst is the man who still harnesses an underground spring.
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Our ancestors sought knowledge, but we, their descendants, glorify ignorance.
S.J. Kincaid
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its content. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into peace and safety of a new dark age.
H.P. Lovecraft
There are too many literati, yet very few are smart; knowledge is acquired far too easily.
Dejan Stojanovic
Evidence is always partial. Facts are not truth, though they are part of it – information is not knowledge. And history is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past. It’s the record of what’s left on the record. It’s the plan of the positions taken, when we to stop the dance to note them down. It’s what’s left in the sieve when the centuries have run through it – a few stones, scraps of writing, scraps of cloth. It is no more “the past” than a birth certificate is a birth, or a script is a performance, or a map is a journey. It is the multiplication of the evidence of fallible and biased witnesses, combined with incomplete accounts of actions not fully understood by the people who performed them. It’s no more than the best we can do, and often it falls short of that.
Hilary Mantel
That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate.
Daniel C. Dennett
It's like killing each other is the only thing we know how to do.
Faith Erin Hicks
I'm everything that you're not.
Ahmed Mostafa
Uthlubul ilma walau bisshin,” meaning, “Seek knowledge, even if it’s as far as China.” -17
Ahmad Fuadi
How lucky are you as seekers of knowledge because God will ease your way into heaven, angels will spread their wings for you, even the inhabitants of the heart and sky, down to the whales beneath the sea, will ask mercy for those who have knowledege...” -48
Ahmad Fuadi
knowledge is like nur, a ray of light. And light cannot come and be in a dark place. Because of that, clean your hearts and your minds, so that light can come, touch, and brighten your soul,” -178
Ahmad Fuadi
Uthlubul ilma minal mahdi ila lahdi. Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave. -178
Ahmad Fuadi