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Day: October 10, 2010

Famous Education & Wisdom Quotes

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle

“Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.” – Pete Seeger

“The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.” – Socrates

“To repeat what others have said requires education. To challenge it requires brains.” – Marry Pettibone Poole

“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.” – Alec Bourne

“Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.” – Bill Gates

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” – Albert Einstein

“Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.” – Wu Ting-Fang

“Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.” ­- Plato

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes

Famous Death Quotes

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.” – Buddha

“Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.” – Albert Einstein

“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” – Mark Twain

“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.” – Will Rogers

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” – Edgar Allan Poe

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain

“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.” – Plato

Famous Courage Quotes

“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.” – E.E. Cummings

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill

“Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” – Mark Twain

“Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” – Ambrose Redmoon

“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” – Bruce Lee

“Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.” – John Wooden

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says ‘I’ll try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.” – Confucius