Learning Quotes

"A thorn in the flesh"

"Allegory of the Cave"

"Boy, don't try to front. I know just what you are."

"Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour."

"Do…or do not. There is no try."

"Elementary, my dear Watson."

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."

"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."

"Hey Jude, don't make it bad"

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"

"I have been changed for good."

"I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom."

"I only know that I know nothing."

"I would always rather be happy than dignified."

"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."

"In the beginning there was faith—which is childish; trust—which is vain; and illusion—which is dangerous."

"It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma."

"It is fun to have fun, but you have to know how."

"It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being"

"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."

"Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss?"

"Just standing on the Radley porch was enough."

"Kid, you'll move mountains!"

"Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper."

"Look, George. Look what I done."

"Love is patient; love is kind."

"My candle burns at both ends"

"No one does wrong voluntarily."

"Oh, bother."

"Oh, the places you'll go!"

"Oh, the things you can find if you don't stay behind!"

"One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them."

"One of you shall betray me."

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."

"Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant."

"so much depends upon a red wheel barrow"

"So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away"

"Sorrow only increased with knowledge."

"Stay gold, Ponyboy."

"Take up your cross and follow me"

"The art of losing isn’t hard to master"

"The Brain—is wider than the Sky—"

"The modern masters promise very little"

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

"There is no Frigate like a Book"

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it."

"Thoughts without content are empty."

"Try them! Try them! And you may!"

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

"We are the hollow men"

"We speak student."

"What happens to a dream deferred?"

"Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past."

"When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, "No, I went to films.""

"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."

"Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination?"

"You may lie."

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view […] until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."

"You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so...get on your way!"