School of Athens / River of Wisdom - Wise Sayings, Aphorisims, Proverbs, Poems, Stories....
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Arther Ashe - Start where you are, Use what you have, Do what you can....
Benjamin Franklin - ...They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety....
Lauren Bacall - ...There are a lot of humorless people in the world and I don't want to know them...You have to take your work seriously, but not yourself....
Franci Bacon - Knowledge is Power ...he advocated inductive reasoning as the way science will move ahead best...relying on many observations in order to formulate general laws, differing from the deductive method of reasoning from general to specifics.
Buddha - personal salvation in Nirvana, Confucianists could follow the Eightfold Path, and Daoists admired its use of meditation...Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared....
Confucius - social harmony and good government would return to China if people lived according to principles of ethics...Single word that could serve as a principle for conduct: reciprocity, Do not do unto others what you would not want others to do unto you....
Edward Deming Certainly we want good results, but management by results is not the way to get good results - work on the causes of results The New Economics 1994 Ch. 2 -The Heavy Losses-, page 33 But he that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures Out of the Crisis 1982 Ch. 3 -Diseases and Obstacles-, page 121 management by numerical goal is an attempt to manage without knowledge of what to do, and in fact is usually management by fear. Out of the Crisis 1982 Ch.2 -Principles for Transformation-, page 76
Albert Einstein - I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world...Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Who you are / What you do ...speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you say....
Frederick Douglas - Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will...Find out just what any people will quietly submit to, and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them....
Paul Gagnon - "John Donnes admonition (no man is an island) had always held, particularly for us Americans, who have so often tried to ignore it, in our flight from the Old World and troublesome foreigners, in our faith in our exceptionalism....Three questions, for example, are central to civic education and todays politics: What conditions - geographic, military, economic, social, technological have nurtured democratic society, and what happens when conditions change? What ideas, values, and educational forces have promoted freedom and justice for us in the past, and can we take these for granted now? What have Americans in each generation actually done to extend democracy and what needs doing still? Such questions, which have no final, agreed-upon answers, demand exploration if students are to be prepared for citizenship."
Han Fei - Legalism, opposition to Confucian ideas....Believed humans are by nature evil and require strong laws to make them attend to their duties....
Langston Hughes - Freedom Is a strong seed Planted In a great need. I live here, too. I want freedom Just as you.
Helen Keller - Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Laozi - Daoism, harmony with nature....Daoist simplicity seems to oppose Confucian formality but a person could be both, honoring Confucian pattern for the government and Daoist emphasis on harmony within the individual attuned to nature...Yin - cool, dark, female and submissive, Yang - warm, light, male, aggressive are both present in all things....
Abraham Lincoln - The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.....Character is like a tree and reputation is like a shadow...The shadow is what we think of it: the tree is the real thing.......Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.
Nelson Mandela - It always seems impossible until it is done....
Edwin Markham - He drew a circle to shut me out, heretic rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win, we drew a circle that took him in.
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche
Thomas Paine - It is a contradiction in terms and ideas, to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second-hand, either verbally or in writing. Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication; after this, it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him; Age of Reason
Mao Zedong - It is not enough to set tasks, we must also solve the problems of the methods....If our task is to cross the river, we cannot cross it without a bridge or a boat. Unless the problem of method is solved, talk about the task is useless. (Deng Xiao Ping 'We cross the river by feeling the stones')
Eleanor Roosevelt - Great minds discuss ideas, Average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people....
J.K. Rowling / Harry Potter / Dumbledore "It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Chief Seattle...Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. all things are connected....If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?
Ernest Shackleton - Leadership, after all, is more than just reaching a goal. It is about spurring others to achieve big things, and giving them the tools and the confidence to continue achieving.
Anne Sullivan - Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy....
Water....Teacher....Anne Sullivan....Helen Keller
Sun Tsu - Know Your Enemy - The Art of War - Documentary
John Templeton.....The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit....
Deng Xiaoping....We cross the river by feeling the stones....
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Henry Adams - Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
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