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On Education...

Never let your education get in the way of your schooling.
- Samuel Clemens

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Samuel Clemens

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
- B. F. Skinner

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde

On Genius...

Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
- Henri Frederic Amiel

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

On Love...

To fall in love is to create a religion with a fallible god.
- Jorge Luis Borge

There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend only to one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood.
- John Stuart Mills

If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than friendship.
- Francis De La Rochefoucauld

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
- Alexander Smith

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

On Math...

Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.
- E. Kasner and J. Newman

The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.
- Johannes Kepler

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
- Plato

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
- Andre Weil

Those that can - do. Those who can't - teach.
- Unknown

On Quotations...

Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
- Ambrose Bierce

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I quote others only in order to better express myself.
- Michel De Montaigne

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer

On Religion...

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the truths which atheism would deny.
- Joseph Addison

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of rewards after death.
- Albert Einstein

Asked if he believes in one G-d, a mathematician answered: "Yes, up to isomorphism".
- G. H. Hardy

Everyone must have two pockets, so that he can reach into the one or the other, according to his needs. In his right pocket are to be the words: "For my sake was the world created," and in his left: "I am dust and ashes."
- Hasidic Saying

One man's idea of hell is to be forced to remain in another man's idea of heaven.
- Unknown

On Sex...

Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex brings up some pretty good questions.
- Woody Allen

You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
- Mary McCarthy

Sex is a three-letter word which needs some old fashioned four-letter words to convey its full meaning.
- Unknown

On Women...

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein

A woman is the only thing that I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
- Abraham Lincoln

Women was God's second mistake.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
- Aristotle Onassis

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