%% "Time is very dangerous without a rigid routine." --Flannery O'Connor %% "The day will happen whether or not you get up." --John Ciardi %% "Forgive me if I can only compose at night so that I can't get up early as well." --Mozart %% "Take your time, hurry up, the choice is yours, don't be late." --Nirvana %% "Start every day off with a smile and get it over with." --W.C. Fields %% "Half-past eight. Little coughs, the clearing of nervous throats, coming in clusters of sound, rustling of pages." --Vladimir Nabokov %% "A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep." --W.H. Auden %% "A teacher affects eternity." --Henry B. Adams %% "I wanted to do it just as he did; so I began to learn." --Cesar Chavez %% "The man who can make hard things easy is the educator." --Emerson %% "The mere imparting of information is not education." --Carter G. Woodson %% "We loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake." --Daniel Defoe %% "Examine what is said, not him who speaks. --Arab Proverb %% "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre." --Gail Godwin %% "A teacher should be sparing of his smile." --William Cowper %% "Every new generation is a fresh invasion of savages." --Hervey Allen %% "We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising." --Zelda Fitzgerald %% "Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new." --Thoreau %% "But then somebody told me, the best things in life aren't things." --Social Distortion %% "Freedom is its own punishment." --P.J. O'Rourke %% "The can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains." --Jesse Jackson %% "Even the youngest among us is not infallible." --Benjamin Jowett %% "Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18." --Francoise Sagan %% "Few, if any, survive their teens." --Maya Angelou %% "Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty." --Degas %% "Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular." --Gore Vidal %% "Shut Up, Be Happy." --Ice-T %% "College is a refuge from hasty judgment. --R"obert Frost %% "It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared." --Whitney Young %% "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." --Don Herold %% "I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education." --Wilson Mizner %% "The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least." --David P. Gardner %% "To be able to be caught up into the world of thought--that is educated." --Edith Hamilton %% "Education is a weapon." --Josef Stalin %% "Only the educated are free." --Epictetus %% "The thing that makes you exceptional, if you at all, is inevitably that which makes you lonely." --Lorraine Hansberry %% "I used to look at myself in the mirror, trying to find a clue as to who and what I was." --Mary Crow Dog %% "We need to look at multiple lives to test and shape our own." --Mary Catherine Bateson %% "Over my mask / is your mask of me." --Mitsuye Yamada %% "We're all in this alone." --Lily Tomlin %% "One can acquire everything in solitude except character." --Stendahl %% "The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates." --Thomas Szasz %% "The only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself." --Aldous Huxley %% "I am greatly astonished when I consider the weakness of my mind, and its proneness to error." --Descartes %% "My head is spinning because of the changes it's putting me through." --Axel Rose %% "`Know thyself'? If I knew myself, I'd run away." --Goethe %% "We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything." --Thomas Edison %% "And 'tis remarkable that they / Talk most who have the least to say." --Matthew Prior %% "Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring." --Hilaire Belloc %% "A guy who wraps up a two-minute idea in a two-hour vocabulary." --Walter Winchell %% "Is this true or only clever?" --Augustine Birrell %% "I never know how much of what I say is true." --Bette Midler %% "That must be wonderful; I have no idea what it means." --Moliere %% "Espio mis pensamientos. / Pienso que no pienso." --Octavio Paz %% "Facts are stubborn things." --Tobias Smollett %% "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." --Mark Twain %% "The truth is more important than the facts." --Frank Lloyd Wright %% "I'll play it first and tell you what it is later." --Miles Davis %% "The best is the enemy of the good." --Voltaire %% "Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it." --Publilius Syrus %% "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." --Derek Bok %% "Ignorance is the first guarantee of poverty and peonage." --Pancho Villa %% "He who opens a school door, closes a prison." --Victor Hugo %% "We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything." --Cardinal Newman %% "How am I to begin it? And what is it to be?" --Virginia Woolf %% "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." --Bacon %% "Do you think it is possible for a human being to know everything that there is?" --Socrates %% "Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman." --Miguel de Unamuno %% "I don't ask questions, I just have fun!" --Bugs Bunny %% "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." --Picasso %% "`For example' is not proof." --Yiddish Proverb %% "Scholarship is polite argument." --Philip Rieff %% "La lengua necesita la mano para dar vida a los pensamientos." -Margo Glantz %% "A fool and his words are soon parted." --William Shenstone %% "Don't be ashamed to say what you are not afraid to think." --Montaigne %% "My method is a form of sensationalism." --Camille Paglia %% "Every word that falls from the mouth is a coin lost." --Maxine Hong Kingston %% "Logic is in the eye of the logician." --Gloria Steinem %% "It is unwise to be too sure on one's wisdom." --Gandhi %% "I own and operate a ferocious ego." --Bill Moyers %% "One must be frank to be relevant." --Corazon Aquino %% "You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument." --Dr. Johnson %% "A flood of words over a desert of thought." --Simon Bolivar %% "When all think alike, then no one is listening." --Walter Lippman %% "Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind." --John Dewey %% "She did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition." --Jane Austin %% "If a guy is over 25% jerk, he's in trouble." --Lee Iacocca %% "In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer." --Oscar Wilde %% "I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion." --Themistocles %% "No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious." --George Bernard Shaw %% "Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness." --James Thurber %% "Whatever is well said by another, is mine." --Seneca %% "I am convinced the desire to formulate truths is a virulent disease." --William James %% "Two leaps per chasm is fatal." --Chinese Proverb %% "I strive to be brief but I become obscure." --Horace %% "I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference." --Jack Kerouac %% "Cleverness is not wisdom." --Euripides %% "There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer." --Gertrude Stein %% "Half a page of scribbled lines." --Pink Floyd %% "Study to be quiet, and to do your own business." --St. Paul %% "No, read in order to live." --Flaubert %% "I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level." --Dana Carvey %% "This book fills a much-needed gap." --Moses Hadas %% "`Read thine enemy,' I prodded, to no avail." --Alice Walker %% "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." --Kipling %% "Much study is a weariness of the flesh." --Ecclesiastes %% "The covers of this book are too far apart." --Ambrose Bierce %% "I think time is a merciless thing." --Tennessee Williams %% "O, call back yesterday, bid time return!" --Shakespeare %% "Thou didst create the night, but I made the lamp." --Unknown Urdu Poet %% "Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." --Sartre %% "It's the friends you can call up at 4:00am that matter." --Marlene Dietrich %% "Blessings on him that invented sleep!" --Cervantes %% "The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon / Smooth away trouble." --Rupert Brooke %% "Sleep is the best meditation." --Tenzin Gyatso, XIV Dalai Lama %% "Well, one must get an idea someplace." --Stephen Hawking %%