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Quotations Education - Knowledge

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

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If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Abigail Van Buren (Pauline Phillips), 1918-, American, Writer and Journalist

Everything in life changes you in some way. Even the smallest things. If you do not accept these changes you do not accept yourself. For through these changes brings new and greater things to you, making you wiser, as time progresses. To avoid these changes is a loss. You only live your life once. Do not waste a minute of it avoiding things. Let them come to you, and learn from them. There is always tomorrow.

Adam R. Gwizdala, , ,

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Adrienne Rich, 1929-, American, Feminist and Poet

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Agatha Christie, , ,

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

Alan Turing, 1912-1954, English, Mathematician

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

Albert Bandura, 1925-, Canadian, Psychologist

There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.

Albert Bandura, 1925-, Canadian, Psychologist

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French Algerian, Author and Philosopher

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French Algerian, Author and Philosopher

Charm is a way of getting the answer yet without asking a clear question.

Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French Algerian, Author and Philosopher

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French Algerian, Author and Philosopher

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French Algerian, Author and Philosopher

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.