Educator Quotes

You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world.

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.

She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.

For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.

In our dreams we are always young.

I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.

The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too.

Income tax filing and payment day should be moved from April 15th to November 1st so it can be close to election day. People ought to have their tax bills fresh in mind as they go to vote.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.