If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.
—Reggie Jackson, 1976
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.
—George Eliot, 1860What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1998It’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
—Helen MacInnes, 1963And to our age’s drowsy blood / Still shouts the inspiring sea.
—James Russell Lowell, 1848We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
—B.F. Skinner, 1964Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
—Herman Melville, 1849A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
—Victor Hugo, 1862All pain is one malady with many names.
—Antiphanes, c. 400 BC