Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett Famous Quotes
"At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago."
Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett Quotations
"If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning."
Carl R Rogers
"To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last--but eat you he will."
Ronald Reagan
Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one.
Benjamin Franklin
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Hellen Keller
"I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person."
Socrates
"At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas."
Aldous Huxley
Tito Fuentes is safe at second with a triple.
Jerry Coleman
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
Flower A Newhouse
The best armor is to keep out of range.
Italian Proverb