Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Vol. Teac. XXIII - Famous Quotes

      This post is a selection of quotes from many webpages searched at Google. Quotations is the reproduction of the words of a speaker or writer. A quotation whose author is forgotten or unknown becomes a saying. We can learn something with them.

      " By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; third, by experience, which is the bitterest."
                          Confucius

      " Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."
                           Peter Drucker

      " Human  history  becomes  more  and  more a  race  between  education  and  catastrophe".
                       H. G. Wells

      " Teachers open the door, you enter by yourself ".
                      Chinese proverb

      " Freedom is when the people can speak, democracy is when the government listen."
                               Alastair Farrugia

      " Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever."
                             Mahatma Gandhi

       " It is not enough to rage against the lie, you' ve got to replace it with the truth."
                           Bono U2

       " The great penalty those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man, privacy.¨
                           Mary Pickford

       " The privacy and dignity of citizens are being whittled away by imperceptible steps, taken individually, each steps may be little, but when viewed as whole, begins to emerge a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a person`s life. The fifth amendment  ( compensation for government abuse ) is an old and good friend, it is one of the great landmarks in the men`s struggle to be free of tyranny and to be civilized."
                      William O. Douglas

       " Who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither."
                         Benjamin Franklin

        " Information is the currency of democracy."
          Thomas Jefferson            
                                                                                
      "Gratitude is the memory of the heart."
Jean Baptiste Massieu
      
        " Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
                          Martin Luther King

        " He who opens a school door, closes a prison."
                        Victor Hugo

        " What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased."
                           Author unknown