Quotes
Quotes about Men
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship. -Mark Twain.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.
A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
Half this game is ninety percent mental.
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
An empire is an immense egotism.
The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else . . . was to be indifferent to that difference.
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
I realize it's hard not to churn your problems and I'm not idealistically saying you shouldn't. Still, you can learn to manage your non-efficient thinking and emotions. Just learn to be as conscious of your *mental and emotional energy expenditures and returns* as you are conscious of your dollar expenditures and returns. Remember the mental and emotional budget sheet. If you *halfway* play with this concept, it can give you a new perspective on energy economy. -Doc Childre.
The fewer facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
