“Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it’s in my basement… let me go upstairs and check.” ~~ M.C. Escher
Filed Under: Achievement, Limits, M.C. Escher, Success
Education Quotes
This collection of education quotes was inspired by the following quote from William Butler Yeats:
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
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“Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it’s in my basement… let me go upstairs and check.” ~~ M.C. Escher
Filed Under: Achievement, Limits, M.C. Escher, Success
“Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.” ~~ Regina Brett
Filed Under: Charity, Peace, Regina Brett, Self-Discipline, Time
“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.” ~~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Filed Under: Attitude, Children, Eleanor Roosevelt
“Dreams are necessary to life.” ~~ Anais Nin
“The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.” ~~ Mary McLeod Bethune
Filed Under: Life, Mary McLeod Bethune, Reading
“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.” ~~
Niels Bohr
Filed Under: Determination, Experience, Intelligence, Knowledge, Learning, Niels Bohr
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” ~~ Albus Dumbledore, in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling
Filed Under: Dreams, J. K. Rowling, Life
“What we’re all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.” ~~ Oprah Winfrey
Filed Under: Inspiration, Life, Love, Oprah Winfrey