Wisdom & Knowledge

• You can pretend to be serious; you can’t pretend to be witty.
• We are constantly faced with a series of great opportunities, brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
• Work is love made visible
• To know the road ahead, ask those coming back
• Consider your origin; you were not formed to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
• he mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. –William Arthur Ward
• Knowledge is power. –Sir Francis Bacon
• Wisdom is organized life. –Kant
• By learning, you will teach; by teaching you will learn.
• He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. –M.C.Escher
• Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
• The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. –Antole France
• To teach is to learn twice. –Joseph Joubert
• Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a peace in adversity and a provision in old age. –Aristotle
• The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. –Dorothy Nevill
• It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
• Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience.
• Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. –Hal Borland
• The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. –Nadia Boulanger
• The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge. –Daniel J Boorstin
• A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. –Thomas Carruthers
• Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. –Chinese Proverb
• All men by nature desire knowledge. –Aristotle
• He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery. –Samuel Smiles
• The strongest of all warriors are these two – Time and Patience. -Leo Tolstoy
• It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. –Professor Dumbledore
• Honesty is the best image. –Tom Wilson
• I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
• Speak the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. –Ron Wild
• Wisdom is to wonder
• The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still small voice within me. –Mahatma Gandhi
• Learn as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
• Nothing endures but change. –Heracitus
• To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success. -Anna Pavlova
• Luck is preparation met with opportunity.
• Our greatest battles are that with our own minds. –Jameson Frank
• The Past is History, the Future is a Mystery, this Moment is a Gift –that’s why it’s called the Present.
• Great minds have purpose, little minds have wishes.
• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. –Derek Blek
• The secret of success is to scratch and keep scratching. –Dennis Green
• The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. –Arthur Brisbane
• Success is a journey, not a destination.
• Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you’ll see how low it is. –Dag Hammarskjold
• The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
• And will you succeed? Yes! You will indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed) -Dr. Seuss
• Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. -Dr. Seuss
• You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose! -Dr. Seuss
• Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. -Dr. Seuss
• The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. -Dr. Seuss
• Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. -Dr. Seuss