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- One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
- Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965)
- Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928 - )
- The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
- An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
- Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
- Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
- Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
- Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
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