Monday, March 31, 2008

More Inspiring quotes

Here are a few more inspiring (education-related) quotes from some of the great thinkers in history:


The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything--Edward J. Phelps


Statistics are no substitute for judgment--Henry Clay


No one knows what he can do till he tries. -Pubilius Syrus


I am still learning. -Michelangelo (his motto)


If someone tells you who they are, believe them.--Maya Angelou


The whole is more than the sum of its parts--Aristotle-Metaphysica


It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.--Aristotle


The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. --Daniel Boorstin


The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.--Eric Berne


What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child--George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish writer


Never offer to teach a fish to swim--Proverb


Those who know how to think need no teachers.--Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Preeminent leader of Indian nationalism


I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.--Socrates (BC 469-BC399) Greek philosopher of Athens



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