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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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