inspirational education quotes

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once a week. ~George Bernard Shaw



Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. ~Mason Cooley



"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't. Q.E.D." "Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. ~Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy



The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles? ~John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, 20 June 1815



No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. ~Frederick G. Banting



A politician is known by the promises he keeps. ~Author Unknown



Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information. ~John Erskine



I can eat a man, but I'm not sure of the fiber content. ~Jenny Eclair



Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. ~Emil Ludwig



Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb



Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly payment is due. ~Author Unknown



One bright day in the middle of night two dead boys rose to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot one another. A deaf policeman heard the noise, and saved the lives of the two dead boys. If you don't believe this lie is true, ask the blind man, he saw it too. ~Author Unknown



Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up. ~Ellen Goodman



The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton



How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true! ~Logan Pearsall Smith



The door to safety swings on the hinges of common sense. ~Author Unknown



Pay attention to your dreams - God's angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off... the right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases. ~Rick Maksian



Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. ~Richard Whately