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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