Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. ----Martin Luther King Jr.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Nothing is more dangerous than stupidity. --- Martin Luther King, Jr. That we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of child. --Bernard Shaw

We want to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of child. , instead of pursuing knowledge for children. ----Bernard ShawDictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. ---Samuel Johnson

Dictionaries are like clocks, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. One is better than none, and the best one cannot be considered completely accurate. -----Samuel Johnson Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind. ----Thomas Carlyle

Work is the panacea for all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind. Good medicine. ---Thomas LyleOriginality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle. ----Dostoevsky

Only through work and struggle can people achieve their own originality and self-esteem. . ----Come StoevskyOther people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself. ----Brendan Francis

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself. It was nothing compared to the countless times I interrupted myself. ---- Brendan FrancisTo sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. ----J. W. Gardner

For smart men, every day is a day of reckoning. Budget conscious. ----J. W. GardnerDon't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win? ----Lane Kirkland

Don’t think winning is everything, it’s more important to have faith.

What's the point of winning if you don't have faith? ---Kirkland Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness. ----Nietzsch

Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness. ----Nietzsche It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious about? ----Thoreau

It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. It depends on why you have to work hard. ----Thoreau Where there is no desire, there will be no industry. ----John Locke

Where there is no desire, there will be no industry. ----Yuehan LockeSomething attempted, something done. ----H. W. Longfellow

Something attempted, something done. ---H. W. Longfellow Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirthfulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it. ----Thoreau

Wisdom is gained, not through restraint and strictness, but through indulgence and childlike carelessness. If you want to know anything, please stay happy. -----ThoreauThe people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them. ----Bernard Shaw

People who succeed in this world work hard to find the opportunities they want, and when they can't find them, they create them themselves. ----Bernard Shaw Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. ----Bacon

Reading makes a person full, conversation makes a person witty, and writing makes a person precise. . ----William James The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ----William James

Wisdom is the art of knowing what to overlook. ----William JamesThose who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ----Thomas Paine

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it. of labor.

-----Thomas Paine It never will rain roses. When we want to have more roses we must plant trees. ----George Eliot

The sky will never rain roses, if If you want more roses, you must grow your own. ----George EliotToo great an eagerness to discharge on obligation is a species of ingratitude. ----La Rochefoucauld

Eagerness to discharge on obligation is a species of ingratitude. ----La Rochefoucauld Time is a bird for ever on the wing. ----T.W.Robertson

Time is a bird for ever flying. ----T. W. Robertson All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time. ---John Ruskin

All books can be divided into two categories: namely: The book of time and the book of eternity. ---John RuskinYoung men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, fitter for new projects than for settled business. ----Bacon

Young men are better suited to invent than to judge. Non-evaluative; better suited to execution than decision-making; better suited to new projects than established careers. ----Bacon Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ---Bacon

Some books can be tasted; some books can be devoured; Some books need to be chewed slowly and digested properly. ---- Bacon The three foundations of learning; seeing much, suffering much, and studying much. ----Catherall

The three basic conditions for studying are: observe more, endure more hardship, and study more. ----Bacon Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth direction too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. ----Bacon

Innate abilities are like naturally occurring plants that must be modified through learning; however, if learning itself is not restrained by practice, it will inevitably have mixed directions and aimless. ---BaconIf a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. ----Benjamin Franklin

If a man devotes all his money to learning, then the knowledge is not People can take it away.

----Benjamin Franklin Books are to mankind what memory is to the individual. ----John Lubbock

Books are to mankind what memory is to the individual. ----John Lubbock"Classic" A book which people praise and don't read. ----Mark Twain

"Classic" A book which people praise and don't read. Books to read. ---Mark Twain A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much. ----Homer

Since you can't escape death if you have nothing to do, why not fight for your whole life. ----HomerMake up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.-----Thomas Huxley

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. Bear the consequences. Indecision accomplishes nothing in this world. -----Thomas Huxley He that knows little soon repeats it. ----Western Proverb

He that knows little soon repeats it. -----Western proverb If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. -----Bacon

What begins with a conviction will end in doubt; and what begins with a doubt will end in conviction. ----Robert Browning Ignorance is not innocence but sin. ----Robert Browning

Ignorance is not innocence, but sin. ----Robert BrowningKnowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. ----A. Tennyson

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. ----TennysonKnowledge is one thing, virtue is another. ----John Newman

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another. ----John Newman Learning does not stop as long as a man lives, unless his learning power atrophies because he does not use it.

-----Robert Hutchins

As long as a person is alive, learning will not stop, unless the learning ability atrophies due to not learning. ----Robert HuchinsLife is short and art is long. ---Sophocles

Life is short and scholarship is endless. ---Sapphocles Much learning shows how little mortals know. ----Francis Young

Learn a lot and then realize that human knowledge is limited.

----Flancis-Yang Our pride chiefly rests on ignorance. ----Gotthold Lessing

Pride chiefly rests on ignorance. ----Gotthold-Lesing People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. ----Franklin Roosevelt

People will die, but books never die. . No one can throw away memories. --- Franklin Roosevelt Reading is not merely sympathizing and understanding; it is also critizing and judging. ----Virginia Woolf

Reading is not only sympathy and understanding, but also criticism and judgment. ---- Virginia Woolf Reading is to the mind what exercise it to the body. ----Richard Steele

Reading is to the mind what exercise it to the body. -----Richard TillSwelled heads are so preoccupied with the few things they know, so that there is no room left for the innumerable things they don't know. -----Bernard Show

The mind of a pretentious person is so occupied by the few things he knows that he has no room to accommodate the countless things he does not know. -----Bernard ShawThe brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if one will only take the pains to train

the mind to think. ----Thomas Edison

A person's mind can be developed like a muscle, as long as you are willing to take the trouble to train your mind to think. ----Thomas Edison