Good Quotes For Inspiration :

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1) "I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework."
-- Edith Ann, [Lily Tomlin]

2) "You teach best what you most need to learn."
-- Richard David Bach

3) A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
- Anonymous

4) A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
- Anonymous

5) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
- John Ciardi

6) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and I don't care.
- Richard Pratt, Pacific Computer Weekly, 20 July 1990

7) "Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
-- (Louis) Hector Berlioz

8) Academy: A modern school where football is taught.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) - The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

9) An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

10) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
- G. M. Trevelyan

11) Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurence J. Peter

12) An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
- Nicholas Murray Butler

13) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant

14) Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

15) Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
- Heinrich Heine

16) Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
- Jimmy Connors

17) Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
- Aldous Huxley

18) "Who dares to teach must never cease to learn."
-- John Cotton Dana

19) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
-- Henry Brooks Adams

20) "What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."
--George Bernard Shaw

21) "Good teachers are those who know how little they know. Bad teachers are those who think they know more than they don't know."
-- R. Verdi

22) "Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century."
-- Perelman

23) "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-- Albert Einstein

24) "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
-- Mark Twain

25) "Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions."
-- William Allin

26) "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."
-- Vernon Law

27) "I may have said the same thing before... But my explanation, I am sure, will always be different."
-- Oscar Wilde

28) "Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm."
-- Publilius Syrus

29) "The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

30) "Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."
-- Jim Rohn

31) "Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."
-- Ambrose Bierce

32) "Getting things done is not always what is most important. There is value in allowing others to learn, even if the task is not accomplished as quickly, efficiently or effectively."
-- R.D. Clyde

33) "Education costs money, but then so does ignorance."
-- Sir Claus Moser

34) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

35) "The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change." -- Carl Rogers

36) "A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear."
-- James B. Stockdale

37) "An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life."
-- Source Unknown

38) "Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."
-- Henry Peter Broughan

39) "It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated."
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed

40) "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."
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man

41) "The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself."
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

42) "A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."
-- Thomas Carruthers

43) "The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn."
-- Cicero

44) "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."
-- Anatole France

45) "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
-- Socrates

46) Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."
-- Chinese Proverb

47) "The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."
-- C. S. Lewis

48) "Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it."
-- Sir William Haley

49) "I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think."
-- Anne Sullivan

50) "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
-- Malcolm Forbes -

51) It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

52) Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
-- George S. Patton

53) If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
-- St. Clement of Alexandra

54) We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

55) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder

56) The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
-- Arthur C. Clarke

57) Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
-- Johann Gottfried Von Herder

58) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.
-- Aristotle

59) Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
-- Voltaire

60) Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

61) You cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind.
-- Author Unknown

62) The best way out is always through.
-- Robert Frost

63) Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
-- William B. Sprague

64) Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
-- Samuel Johnson

65) Fortune favors the brave.
-- Publius Terence

66) He who hesitates is lost.
-- Proverb

67) Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
-- Confucius

68) Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-- Albert Einstein

69) Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

70) We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
-- Winston Churchill

71) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

72) For hope is but the dream
of those that wake.
-- Matthew Prior

73) Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
-- Lucretius

74) Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
-- Mary Shelley

75) Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
-- Albert Einstein

76) If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
-- Henry David Thoreau

77) Inspiration and genius--one and the same.
-- Victor Hugo

78) To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned."
-- Edward Bulwer Lytton

79) Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
-- George Eliot

80) If you would create something,
you must be something.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

81) Every artist was first an amateur.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

82) The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
-- Horace Bushnell

83) No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

84) Men do less than they ought,
unless they do all they can.
-- Thomas Carlyle

85) Let thy words be few.
Ecclesiastes 5:2 from Words of Wisdom

86) The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir

87) First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.
-- Epictetus

88) I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- W.B. Yeats

89) Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
-- Henry David Thoreau

90) All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
-- T.E. Lawrence

91) Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
-- Henry David Thoreau

92) So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key.
Lyrics from Already Gone, peformed by the Eagles for their 1974 On the Border album

93) I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
-- Patrick Henry

94) Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
-- Lanston Hughes

95) You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.
-- Henry D. Thoreau

96) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

97) Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
-- Marcia Wieder

98) Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
-- Henry David Thoreau

99) The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.
-- Hamilton Wright Mabie

100) The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
-- Paul Valery

101) A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

102) Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary.
-- Anonymous

103) "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
-- Mahatma Gandhi

104) Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.
-- Bruce Springsteen

105) Work like you don't need the money, love like your heart has never been broken, and dance like no one is watching.
-- Aurora Greenway

106) The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
-- Bertrand Russell

107) No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
-- Aesop

108) Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
-- John Lennon

109) Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
-- Ann Landers

110) Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.
-- Steven Coallier

111) Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
-- Gandhi

112) "If life was supposed to be easy, we wouldn't have the capability to love or forgive, smile or trust."

"Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right.
He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something."

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
-- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower

113) If a man does his best, what else is there?"
-- General George S. Patton

114) "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
-- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

115) "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
-- Emile Zola

116) "This book fills a much-needed gap."
-- Moses Hadas

117) "Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."
-- Rene Descartes

118) "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
-- Thomas Henry Huxley

119) "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
-- Plato

120) "There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem."
-- George Bernard Shaw

121) "Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

122) "I have nothing to declare except my genius."
-- Oscar Wilde

123) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
-- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

124) "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."
-- J. Paul Getty

125) "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
-- Thomas Alva Edison

126) "Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
-- George Eliot

127) "A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."
-- John D. Rockefeller

128) "You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

129) "Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."
-- Jimmy Durante

130) "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
-- Samuel Johnson

131) A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

132) "Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working."
-- Albert Giacometti

133) "There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet."
-- Randy Pausch

134) "It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
-- Carl Sagan

135) "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

136) "Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."
-- Elbert Hubbard

137) "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
-- Isaac Asimov

138) "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
-- Carl Sagan

139) "It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts."
-- G. B. Burgin

140) "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."
-- Auric Goldfinger

141) "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"
-- Oscar Wilde

142) "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
-- Jimi Hendrix

143) "A clever man commits no minor blunders."
-- Goethe

144) "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours."
-- Richard Bach

145) "A witty saying proves nothing."
-- Voltaire

146) "Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera."
-- James Stephens

147) "The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault."
-- Henry Kissinger

148) "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
-- Xenocrates

149) "If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
-- Mario Andretti