Quote of the Week Archives

Learning has not taken place until behavior has changed.

For lack of training they lacked knowledge.

For lack of knowledge the lacked confidence.

For lack of confidence they lacked victory.

-Julius Caesar

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

"One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. I can honestly say this is not so....I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that proceeds what they world calls success." --- Thomas A.Edison

"Great discoveries and achievements invariably
involve the cooperation of many minds."

Learning - to know how to navigate in
a forest of facts, ideas, and theories"
-- Raymond Queneau

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

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."

--Walter Lippmann

"Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use."

--Unknown

"If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!"

--Andy McIntyre

"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"

--Stephen Wright

"The limits inside which you live are largely of your own making. They bind or they vanish at your command. You can hide inside them or you can grow beyond them. The world is out there, waiting, any time you are ready."

--Ralph Marston

"All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions."

--George Bernard Shaw

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."

--Mary Pickford

Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash."

--Harriet Rubin

"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."

- Johann von Goethe

"The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone."

- William J.H. Boetcker