Showing posts with label Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quotes. Show all posts

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Quotes on Education


We all know the importance of education. It is the lifeline of modern human life. No one can deny the significance of education and learning in our lives. It helps us in seeing things in a better perspective. We get to know the world and its people in a better way. The scope of education is not just restricted to a good career and earning five figure salaries. It is much more than that. Education tells us about what is right and what is wrong. It helps us in developing insight and wisdom. And perhaps, if there is one thing that segregates humans from animals then it must be education. The ability to read, write and understand is what makes we humans the special ones. Let’s have a look at some of the phenomenal quotes on education:-
If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Practice is the best instruction of them all.
- Publilius Syrus
If the next generation is to face the future with zest and self-confidence, we must educate them to be original as well as competent.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
- Aristotle
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed...
To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life...
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
- Thomas Moore
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
- Sir Richard Steele
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle
We can get over being poor, but it takes longer to get over being ignorant.
- Jane Sequichie Hifler
Fear is the instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
- Mark Twain
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
- Thomas Watson, Sr., founder of IBM
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and rootpuller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
- Aristotle
Knowledge is the food of the soul.
- Plato

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Saturday, February 5, 2011

Quotes



Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Truth is more important than facts.

When the charater of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard for it.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score? Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine!

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