Education Quotes - Page 57

We must fight inequality and poverty if we want to re-establish peace and security. Seven million Mexicans live in extreme poverty, which is why I have launched a crusade against hunger. We also have to improve our educational system and stimulate economic growth.

All of life is a constant education.

In real life, you can't get a job as an executive unless you have the educational background and the opportunity. Now the fact that you are not an executive is merely because of the social standing of life... Black people have a hard time getting anywhere. And those that do, are usually straight. In a ballroom, you can be anything you want.

Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?

Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence.

We learn by reflecting on what has happened. The process seldom works in reverse, although most educational processes assume that it does. We hope that we can teach people how to live before they live, or how to manage before they manage.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of living a life in accordance with God's Will.

I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally prepared at maturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. . . . In so doing, it strikes a fatal blow at . . . the most demoralizing of all monopolies. . . educational superiority.

I think self-education is the greatest and best thing you could ever make.

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?

What the world needs today is neither a new order, a new education, a new system, a new society nor a new religion. The remedy lies in a mind and a heart filled with holiness.

Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.