Best Quotes of All Time

Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.

William B. Yeats, poet

When you know something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say that you don't know.

That is knowledge.             

                                                                                                                    Kung Fu Tzu (Confucius)

Those who dare to teach, never cease to learn.

"Reading is the fuel of education."                    written on the back of a truck

I think stories are a bit like x-rays. They show us what's happening inside people. Not to their blood and bones and spleens. To their hopes and fears and dreams and feelings. And ours. I reckon stories should be available on Medicare.

Morris Gleitzman

"If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four hours sharpening the axe."

Abraham Lincoln

"The person who does not read good books has no advantage over the person who can't read them."

Mark Twain

"So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall." 

Roald Dahl from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"

'The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history'.

Carl Rowan

I walk down the street.
There is a hole.
I don't see it.
I fall in.
It isn't my fault.
It takes a very long time to get out.

I walk down the same street.
There is still a deep hole.
I pretend not to see it.
I fall in.
I pretend it's still not my fault.
It takes a long time to get out.

I walk down the same street.
There is still the same deep hole.
I see it.
I fall in anyway.
It's a habit.
I get out quicker this time.

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole.
I see it.
I walk around it.
I don't fall in.

I walk down a different street.

Portia Nelson

 

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

 

"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."

- Yogi Berra

 

"The covers of this book are too far apart."

- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

 

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

- Perelman

 

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

 

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."

- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

As Nobel laureate Herbert Simon wisely stated, the meaning of "knowing" has shifted from being able to remember and repeat information to being able to find and use it (Simon, 1996).

"Success is a journey - not a destination."

"To teach is to learn twice over. "Joseph Joubert in Pensees 1842, p.22.

"Learning should not only take us somewhere, it should allow us to go further more easily." (Bruner 1960)