Igloo Library

Failure is success if we learn from it. - Malcolm Forbes

o be a good loser is to learn how to win. - Carl Sandburg

I was with book, as a woman is with child. - C S Lewis

Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal. - A. Maude Royden

What is research but a blind date with knowledge? - Will Harvey

Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. - Jim Rohn

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. - Horace

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? - Jerry Seinfeld

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. - Confucious

Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present. - Ken Lancaster

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge. - Lao-tzu

All wish to possess knowledge, but few are willing to pay the price. - Juvenal

You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live. - Bob Dylan

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain

A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone. - Laura Bush

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. - Thomas Sowell

Life is like playing violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. - Northrop Frye

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people. - Dian Fossey

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. - Aristotle

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. - Jim Carrey

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. - Oscar Wilde

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. - Doris Day

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation. - Nicholas Negroponte

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. - Toni Morrison

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself. - Giorgio Baglivi

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor. - Abe Lemons

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time. - Arnold Bennett

Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read. - John Wooden

If you learn to listen for clues as to how I feel instead of what I say, you will be able to understand me much better. - Mara Botonis

Learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. - Peter F Drucker

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it. - Groucho Marx

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner. - Ben Bergor

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come. - Raymond Chandler

My son really has the spirit of Valentine's Day. When he was in college, he used to send his mother a heart-shaped box of laundry. - Milton Berle

The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. - J K Rowling

There is not less wit, not less invention, in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that book. - Pierre Boyle

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation. - John Wooden

Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge. - Kelly Slater

Historically the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. - Stephen Covey