quotes about education and learning

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now! ~Alice Childress


If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is, "Probably because of something you did." ~Saturday Night Live, Jack Handey, "Deep Thoughts "


We never repent of having eaten too little. ~Thomas Jefferson


Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. ~Robert Ingersoll Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. ~Robert G. Ingersoll


The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition. ~Dave Barry


Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination. ~Marcel Proust, Albertine disparue, 1925


It was his nature to blossom into song, as it is a tree's to leaf itself in April. ~Alexander Smith


Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. ~Author Unknown


There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims


There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience. ~Laurence J. Peter


Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion. ~Jonathan Swift


My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms - will it return to my body when they scatter? ~Kotomichi


What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. ~Karl Menninger


No matter how good she looks, some other guy is sick and tired of putting up with her crap. ~Author Unknown


Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. ~Aristotle


Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor. ~Homer, Iliad


The list of Irish saints is past counting; but in it all no other figure is so human, friendly, and lovable as St. Patrick - who was an Irishman only by adoption. ~Stephen Gwynn


I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. ~William Makepeace Thackeray


I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare. ~Eldridge Cleaver


You know, we've got to do it someday... throw away all the guns and invite all the jokers from the North and the South in here to a cocktail party... last man standing on his feet at the end wins the war. ~Hawkeye, "Pilot Episode," 1972 You know, we've got to do it someday... throw away all the guns and invite all the jokers from the north and the south in here to a cocktail party... last man standing on his feet at the end wins the war. ~Hawkeye, "Pilot Episode," original airdate 17 September 1972, written by Larry Gelbart, directed by Gene Reynolds