All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. -- Henry Ford

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. -- John Dewey

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. -- Chinese proverb

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. -- Raymond Linquist

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin

I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing; and that we can deflect words, by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds. -- Adrienne Rich

I tried to treat them like me, and some of them weren't. -- Bill Russell (basketball coach, on his players)

If there's anything I've learned in life it's that things take about twice as long as they ought to take. About twice as long. Once you accept that you can calm down. -- Donna Mills, actress

It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers. -- James Thurber

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown -- Claude Bernard

Nothing can be done except little by little. -- Charles Baudelaire

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. -- George Soros (1912-1994) Romanian-French dramatist Soros on Soros

One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes. -- Helen Merrell Lynd

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures. -- J. G. Hubbard

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. -- Jonathan Kozol

Surround yourself with people who respect you and treat you well -- Claudia Black

Tell me and I will surely forget. Show me and I might remember. But make me do it, and I will certainly understand. -- An old Chinese proverb

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. -- Doris Lessing

The education of a man is never complete until he dies. -- Robert E. Lee

The life so short, the craft so long to learn. -- Hippocrates

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride. -- Alexis Carrel (1873-1944) US surgeon, biologist

To change and to improve are two different things. -- German proverb

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. -- Tuli Kupferberg

Who knows what he is told, must know a lot of things that are not so. -- Arthur Guiterman

You can observe alot by watching -- Yogi Berra

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. -- Margaret Thatcher