Quotes of Wise Men

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A man's character may be learned from the adjectiveswhich he habitually uses in conversation.

Mark Twain

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who

can't read.Mark Twain

A person with a new idea is a crank until the ideasucceeds.

Mark Twain

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square holeright away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Mark Twain

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.Mark Twain

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.Mark Twain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, itdoesn't matter.

Mark Twain



All generalizations are false, including this one.Mark Twain

All right, then, I'll go to hell.Mark Twain

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the successis sure.

Mark Twain

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonishthe rest.

Mark Twain

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel inwhich it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Mark Twain



Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.Mark Twain

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.Mark Twain

As an example to others, and not that I care formoderation myself, it has always been my rule never tosmoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking

when awake.Mark Twain

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of amisprint.

Mark Twain

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.Mark Twain



EDUCATION

An educated person is one who has learned thatinformation almost always turns out to be at best

incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious,

mendacious - just dead wrong.Russell Baker

An education isn't how much you have committed tomemory, or even how much you know. It's being able to

differentiate between what you know and what you don't.Anatole France

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standingarmy.

Edward Everett



Education is a progressive discovery of our ownignorance.Will Durant

Education is a social process. Education is growth.

Education is, not a preparation for life; education is lifeitself.

John Dewey

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to rememberfrom time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can

be taught.Oscar Wilde

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge inadversity. Aristotle



Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn'tknow.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a

fire.William Butler Yeats

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes fromone generation to another.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything withoutlosing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost



Education is the key to unlock the golden door offreedom.

George Washington Carver

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Will Durant

Education is what survives when what has been learnedhas been forgotten.

B. F. Skinner

Education, That which discloses to the wise and disguisesfrom the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce

Education... has produced a vast population able to readbut unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. M. Trevelyan



Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with anopen one.

Malcolm Forbes

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths

pure theatre.Gail Godwin

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.Victor Hug

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