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If you never change your mind, why have one?
Edward De Bono

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Andy McIntyre

If you're here, you're alive.
Unknown

If, while you are in school, there is a shortage of qualified personnel in a particular field, then by the time you graduate with the necessary qualifications, that field's employment is glutted.
Marguerite Emmons

Ignorance does not necesarilly mean one has a lack of wisdom, for a most ignorant person can be one with much wisdom. It's "live and learn" that creates wisdom.
Austin Holmes

Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Robert Burton

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
Robert G. Ingersoll

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Jules de Gaultier

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
Akiro Kurosawa

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
Epicurus

In order to keep an open mind, I am trying to avoid learning anything.
Ashleigh Brilliant

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
Mark Twain

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
John Lilly

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
Theodor W. Adorno

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
III Throop

It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.
Sherrill Brown

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein

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

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it's been though a blender first.
Les Barker

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
Scott Elledge

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Aristotle

It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
Rami Belson

Just because you've been wiping your ass for twenty years, that doesn't mean you've been doing it right.
John Winsett

Knowledge and belief are two separate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.
Godfried Bomans

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
Josh Billings

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
Ambrose Bierce

Lately I've found that if it weren't for stereotypes, conversation would be much more difficult for the closed-minded.
Morgan Ivy

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
W. Edwards Deming

Learning is the evolution of the mind.
Alison Crocker

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
Unknown

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
Luciano Pavarotti

Learning to shrug is the beginning of wisdom.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject... The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
Luther Burbank

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
Jr. Vonnegut

Life's tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin

Live to learn... forget... and learn again.
Unknown

Look to the past for guidance into the future.
Robert Jacob Goodkin

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.
Delmore Schwartz

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell

My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.
Jorge Luis Borges

My father must have had some elementary education, for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.
George Bernard Shaw

Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference.
Unknown

Never forget what you need to remember.
Garrett Bartley

Never give advice -- a wise man won't need it, a fool won't heed it.
Unknown

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Sam Brown

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
W. Somerset Maugham

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
Ellen Glasgow

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
John A. Locke

No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid.
Unknown

No one wants a good education, but everyone wants a good degree.
Lee Rudolph

Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.
Sue S. Taylor

Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it.
Unknown

One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
Unknown

One thing is one thing. Another thing is another thing.
Unknown

Only the educated are free.
Epictetus

Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it, and have not reached my goal.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John F. Kennedy

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. And inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx

People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confessor of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

People who don't think probably don't have brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake.
Joan Powers

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it.
Karl Marx

Policy is a guide to the wise and a rule to the fool.
Unknown

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin

Reality is something you rise above.
Liza Minnelli

Reality is subordinate to perception.
Jr. Cole

Sharks mainly attack when your're wet.
Unknown

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Carl Gustav Jung

Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
Jenny Holzer

Some people speak from experience; others, from experience, don't speak.
Unknown

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.
Scott Sheddan

Strong words are required for weak principles.
Doug Horton

Stupidity is also known as a medical disorder known as a rectal-cranial inversion.
Unknown

Style is an easy way of saying complicated things.
Jean Cocteau

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Bill Watterson

The best defense against logic is ignorance.
Unknown

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Wendell Phillips

The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Josh Billings

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
Unknown

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Ellen Parr

The dead and the stupid never change their opinions.
S. Gilmary Beagle

The definition of experience is knowledge acquired too late.
Unknown

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Unknown

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Winston Churchill

The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty.
Unknown

The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein -- it rejects it.
P. Medawar

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided by the number of people in the group.
Unknown

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.
Ray Stevens

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
George Bernard Shaw

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain

The masses have little time to think. And how incredible is the willingness of modern man to believe.
Benito Mussolini

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Gustav Jung

The most undependable part on your car is the nut holding the wheel.
Unknown

The most valuable and useful of all talents and abilities is that of never using two words or descriptions when one will do or suffice.
Dr. Squid

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character. The only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.
Will Durran

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
Paul Fix

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
Shirley Maclaine

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell

The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Aristophanes

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is governed more by appearance than realities, so it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as it is to know it.
Unknown

The world's greatest heroes are the world's greatest fuck-ups.
Stacy Shaw

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
Jorge Luis Borges

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
Cicero

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is its own troubles.
Jesus Christ

They talk most who have the least to say.
Mathew Prior

Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
Plato

Those who can do, those who can't teach, and those who can't teach teach education.
Nicolas Martin

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hector Berlioz

To "be" means to be related.
Alfred Korzybski

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Theodore Roosevelt

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Confucius

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
Joan Powers

To use a method is to compare the realm of mind to a stool. The true thinker walks freely.
Godfried Bomans

Today's children are required to learn what most people in former times were forbidden to know.
Ashleigh Brilliant

Too clever is dumb.
Ogden Nash

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henrik Tikkanen

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.
Unknown

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
David Hume

Two things I cannot understand: myself and others.
Erkki J. Jyrkkanen

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
R. I. Fitzhenry

Upon the education of the people the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin Disraeli

Use soft words and hard arguments.
Unknown

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov

Watch the traffic, the light will never hit you.
"Moms" Mabley

We find comfort among those who agree with us; growth among those who don't.
Frank A. Clark

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus

We must become the change we want to see.
Mahatma Gandhi

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Unknown

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
Herbert Simon

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin

When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France

When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains knowledge, he is an ordinary man.
Unknown

When angry, count to ten before you speak; when very angry, a hundred.
Thomas Jefferson

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Charles Caleb Colton

Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.
Alfred Korzybski

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination
Petronius Arbiter

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Wise men don't need advice; fools don't take it.
Benjamin Franklin

Wise men make proverbs; fools repeat them.
Unknown

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato

Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
Mark Van Doren

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
Friedrich von Schiller

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Unknown

Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Heschel

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
John Maynard Keynes

You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.
M. Shawn Cole

You are only young once... but you can be immature your whole life.
Unknown

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
Elbert Hubbard

You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.
Dorothy Parker

You can observe a lot by watching.
Yogi Berra

You can tell a lot about a person by looking at what kind of people are his friends and children.
Unknown

You have to be an intellectual to believe such nonsense. No ordinary man could be such a fool.
George Orwell

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