"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."
--Benjamin Disraeli
"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat."
--Jean-Paul Sartre
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."
--Henry Kissinger
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
--Malcolm Forbes
"The secret of education is respecting the pupil."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices."
--Laurence Peter
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
--Aristotle
"Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions."
--E. B. White
"The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say 'no' to almost everything."
--Warren Buffett
"You can do anything, but not everything."
--David Allen
"Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up and get to work."
--Chuck Close
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
--Theodore Roosevelt
"Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is."
--Guindon
"Mathematics is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your writing is, and formal mathematics is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your mathematics is."
--Lamport
"The sports page records people's accomplishments; The front page nothing but their failures."
--Earl Warren
"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."
--Abraham Lincoln
"A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know."
--Laurence Peter
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind. Think big anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.
--Dr. Kent M. Keith
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
--Derek Bok
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."
--Chinese Proverb
"The Past may not be your fault, but the Future is your responsibility alone."
--Gene Cruz
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
--Albert Einstein
"Believe those who seek the truth; doubt those who find it."
--Andre Gide
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
--Theodore Roosevelt
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
--Albert Einstein
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
--Lily Tomlin
"The best social program is a good job."
--Bill Clinton
"If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you."
--Bill Clinton