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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
- If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
- Henry J. Tillman
- If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
- [It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system.
- Dan Quayle (1947 - )
- Praise the bridge that carried you over.
- George Colman (1762 - 1836), The Younger
- Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
- Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- It is only the first step that is difficult.
- Marie De Vichy-Chaconne, Marquise Du Defend, letter to Defend, 1763
- I felt like poisoning a monk.
- Umberto Eco (1932 - ), on why he wrote the novel "The Name of the Rose."
- The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
- Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
- Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
- Colette (1873 - 1954), The Last of Cheri, 1926
- Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
- Ellen DeGeneres
- He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Music is essentially useless, as life is.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
- If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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