The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
Harold Rosenberg
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
Harold Rosenberg
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
Johann von Goethe
Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
Mahatma Gandhi
A committee is an animal with four back legs.
John Le Carre
It is truly said: It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.
Chow Ching
Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
Ben Stein
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
Henri Frederic Amiel
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Thomas Jones
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.
Felix E. Schelling
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister
I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.
Fred A. Allen
Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.
Frank A. Clark
Drive slow and enjoy the scenery -- drive fast and join the scenery.
Doug Horton
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed.
Lao-Tzu
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Ambroise Valery
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bach
Be kind to unkind people -- they need it the most.
Source Unknown
Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
George D. Prentice
The dead hand of the past must die. We are waking up and that gives me hope that the new age will truly be free and not filled with the lies and democide of the old world order.
James Dye
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Victor Hugo
The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.
John F. Kennedy
Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill
If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation...?
Anon.
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