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- All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
- Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)
- Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
- Hosea Ballou (1796 - 1861)
- All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.
- Charles M. Schwab
- Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
- George Matthew Adams
- Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough - the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.
- Floyd Dell
- Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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