Posted by: berrygool | May 13, 2008

Famous Quotations about Knowledge


All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.  ~Maurice Maeterlinck


Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.  ~Panchatantra

We are here and now.  Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.  ~H.L. Mencken

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.  ~Susanne K. Langer

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Oftentimes the supposed increasers of knowledge have only given a new name, and a worse, to what every body knew before.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Posted by: berrygool | May 8, 2008

Famous Quotations about Mistakes

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense.  ~Henry David Thoreau


You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.  ~Colette

Unto those Three Things which the Ancients held impossible, there should be added this Fourth, to find a Book Printed without erratas.  ~Alfonso de Cartagena

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.  ~Mel Brooks

Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties.  ~Author Unknown

Posted by: berrygool | May 7, 2008

Famous self improvement quotes

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Benjamin Disraeli

Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

James Allen

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

Posted by: berrygool | May 6, 2008

Famous Education Sayings

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy. – Robert Doisneau

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. – Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. – Beatrix Potter

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. – Albert Einstein

Nine tenths of education is encouragement. – Anatole France

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time. – Jiddu Krishnamurti

Posted by: berrygool | May 6, 2008

Famous Children Quotes

# Babies are my inspiration and my joy. In them, I see innocence and the precious possibilities of each life unfolding. In my images, I hope to convey a measure of the beauty that exists in all children.
Anne Geddes Quotes - Women - Photographers

# I have a deep love and respect for children and I cannot imagine photographic life without them playing a major part. I hope that through my work as a photographer, I have been able to pass on my appreciation of their beauty and charm.
Anne Geddes Quotes - Women - Photographers
# My idea of a perfect image is where I have created a beautiful environment, and the baby has given something of its personality. That extra spark in the image is always supplied by the baby. When you look at one of my images, your eye is always drawn to the baby’s face, regardless of how complicated the setting is. The babies are always the most important aspect of the image, and so they should be.
Anne Geddes Quotes - Women - Photographers
# Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso Quotes - Spanish Artists

Posted by: berrygool | May 5, 2008

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.
~life by Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun

I say, if your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
~sayings about life by Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

The strong by scattering their energies, accomplish nothing. The weak, by concentrating on one thing, build big business.
~quotes about Creativity by

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
~famous saying about life by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.
~saying on Life by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.
~famous saying about life by Plato

Despite the gardener’s best intentions, Nature will improvise.
~sayings about life by Michael P. Garafalo, gardendigest.com

We grow great by dreams … Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they [flourish]; bring them to the sunshine and light, which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true
~quotes about Dreams by Woodrow Wilson

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
~famous saying about life by Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man

A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip
~saying on Birthday Sayings by Unknown

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.
~famous saying about life by S.I. Hayakawa

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
~life by Mahatma Gandhi

Posted by: berrygool | May 4, 2008

In time of test, family is best.

In time of test, family is best.
~famous educational quote by Burmese Proverb

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
~saying on Art by G.K. Chesterton

There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.
~famous educational quote by Author Unknown

The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.
~educational by T.H. Huxley, Evolution and Ethics, 1893

Friendship is like pissing your pants. Everyone can see it but only you can feel it’s warmth.
~sayings about educational by

There is this to be said for walking: It’s the one mode of human locomotion by which a man proceeds on his own two feet, upright, erect, as a man should be, not squatting on his rear haunches like a frog.
~quotes about Walking by Edward Abbey

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.
~famous educational quote by La Bruyère, Characters, 1688

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Posted by: berrygool | May 4, 2008

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
~famous educational quote by William Shakespeare

Everyone’s responsibility is to make the lost of his best talents.
~saying on Responsibility by

The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
~famous educational quote by Charles Towne

You know you’re from Arizona when you drive two miles around a parking lot looking for a shady place - even in the dead of winter.
~educational by Local Saying

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
~sayings about educational by D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf.
~quotes about Golf by Robert Lynd

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The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can’t improve your lie.
~educational by George Deukmejian

All unimportant matters drop off you in ragdoll pose. Very few things are genuinely important. The Truth sways before you.
~sayings about educational by Terri Guillemets

The life spark in my eyes is in no way different than the life spark in the eyes of any other sentient being.
~quotes about Animal Rights by Michael Stepaniak, quoted in Joanne Stepaniak, The Vegan Sourcebook, 1998

A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.
~famous educational quote by Toni Morrison

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
~saying on Integrity by Mark Twain

How orderly philosophical is the landscape, are all the inhabitants of this World! It is the creation of a god who ever plays the geometer.
~famous educational quote by Aldous Huxley, Music at Night

You can’t truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.
~educational by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

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