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| The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life. | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. [Ecclesiasticus 28:17 --18] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. [Colossians 4:6] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life. | Bill Gothard | |
| Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead. | Bill Mcglashen | |
| When I learn something new-and it happens every day-I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest. | Bill Moyers | American Author, Speaker |
| The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. | Bob Edwards | |
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| You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do! | Bob Richards | American Olympic Pole Vaulting Champion |
| We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. | Booker T. Washington | 1856-1915, American Black Leader and Educator |
| A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence. | Brander Matthews | 1852-1929, American Writer |
| Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. | Brian Tracy | American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman |
| You can't learn less. | Buckminster Fuller | American Engineer, Inventor, Designer, Architect ''Geodesic Dome'' |
| There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears. | C. S. Robinson | |
| A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunnelling to the top. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. | Carl Rowan | 1925-, American Journalist, 'The man' |
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| I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. | Carl Sandburg | 1878-1967, American Poet |
| A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. | Carl Van Doren | 1885-1950, American Critic, Biographer |
| For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own. | Caroline Lejeune | 1897-1973, British Film Critic |
| The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all. | Carolyn Wells | 1870-1942, American Author |
| I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive. | Carrie Fisher | 1956-, American Actress, Novelist |
| It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true ''gift'' in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself. | Cathy Lee Crosby | American Actress, Producer, Author |
| Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few. | Cato The Elder | BC 234-149, Roman Statesman, Orator |
| To have another language is to possess a second soul. | Charlemagne | 742-814, King of the Franks, Emperor of the West |
| You will be the same person in five as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read. | Charles 'Tremendous' Jones | American Motivational Speaker, Author |
| Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother! | Charles Baudelaire | 1821-1867, French Poet |
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| Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. | Charles de Secondat | |
| The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. | Charles Lamb | 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic |
| I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me. | Charles Lamb | 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic |
| Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts. | Charles Maurice De Talleyrand | 1754-1838, French Statesman |
| Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavours to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue. | Charles Simmons | |
| I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse. | Charles V | 1500-1558, King of Spain, Holy Roman Emperor. |
| I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose. | Charlie Chaplin | 1889-1977, British Comic Actor, Filmmaker |
| All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us... they can't get away this time. [When Surrounded By 8 Enemy Divisions During WW2] | Chesty Puller | 1898-1971, American Marine Officer |
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| Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. | Chinese Proverb | Sayings of Chinese Origin |
| Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. | Chinese Proverb | Sayings of Chinese Origin |
| When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past. | Christopher Ricks | 1933-, British Critic |
| Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? | Clarence Darrow | 1857-1938, American Lawyer |
| Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. | Claude Levi-Strauss | 1908-, French Anthropologist |
| Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it. | Confucius | BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher |
| I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the centre of your being. | Confucius | BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher |
| The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner. | Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna | 1583-1654, Swedish Statesman |
| I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd. | D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930, British Author |
| One sheds one's sicknesses in books -- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them. | D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930, British Author |
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