Educational Quotes - Page 21

• Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Believe

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• I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

  Natalie Portman

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Hate

  "Biography: Natalie Portman". www.thecinemaholic.com. January 20, 2018.

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• Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Mules, Motto

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• It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stars, Clever, Real

  "Sir Terry Pratchett: hallucinating gently for a living". Interview with Corinne Podger, www.abc.net.au. April 30, 2011.

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• 'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

  Terry Pratchett

  Teacher, Thinking, Process

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• If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

  Samuel Richardson

  Children, Would Be, Study

  Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

  Tom Robbins

  Brain, Littles, Toys

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.130, Bantam

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• If increasing income equality is the goal, it might be wiser to put money into infrastructure than to subsidize manufacturing. Construction also pays good wages, but with lower educational requirements. And America's infrastructure needs are enormous.

  Christina Romer

  America, Goal, Wages

  "Do Manufacturers Need Special Treatment?" by Christina Romer, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2012.

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• Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Education, Important, Dare

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• The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Success, Confidence

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• To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Birthday, Philosophy, Words Of Wisdom

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Believe, Book, College

  Interview with Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

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• There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Fear, Air, Childhood

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.47, Full Moon Publications

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• All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

  Walter Scott

  Leadership, Learning, School

  Letter to J. G. Lockhart, c.16 June 1830, in H. J. C. Grierson (ed.) 'The Letters of Sir Walter Scott' vol. 11 (1936) p. 365

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• Adults are obsolete children.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system.

  Sargent Shriver

  Thinking, Goal, Technique

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• For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Giving, Debt, Benefits

  "Iain Duncan Smith to unveil new ways of measuring child poverty" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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• I definitely want to make it very clear to everybody that the educational institution that we have, the school that Will and I have, is not a Scientology school. And that, you know, I know there's been, you know, a lot of buzz around that idea and that it is not my desire to, you know, teach Scientology at all.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  School, Ideas, Desire

  "What Goes on Inside Will Smith, Jada Pinkett-Smith's School?" by Heather Downie, abcnews.go.com. September 11, 2009.

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• People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"

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• Having a Congress with a more diverse educational and professional background would serve the country well. And given the budget challenges facing America today, we might benefit from a few more cold, calculating problem solvers, and fewer courtroom impresarios.

  John Sununu

  Country, America, Challenges

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• I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

  Matt Taibbi

  Art, East, Coast

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• The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.

  Shirley Temple

  Done, World, Fields

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• What is wanted for the nonce is, that folks should be as agreeable as possible in conversation and demeanor; so that good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in societ.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Happiness, Attitude, Humor

  "Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval and other stories".

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• It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Family, Crazy

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.180, Courier Corporation

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• Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

  Mark Twain

  God, Tired, Men

  Notebook, 1903

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