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Learning never exhausts the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. - Claus Moser

Algebra: Undergarment worn by female math teachers - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Surgeon: The person who was a cut-up at medical school - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. - Winston Churchill

"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics. - Eric T. Bell

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. - Sydney J. Harris

Dublin University contains the cream of Ireland - rich and thick. - Samuel Beckett

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school. - Adlai Stevenson

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. - George Gobel

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

It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it. - Finley P Dunne

There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much. - Noam Chomsky

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year. - Marty Allen

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. - G K Chesterton

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. - Plato

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

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. - Robert Frost

Genetic Engineering: A recent attempt to formalize what farmers have been doing all along. - Unknown

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown

If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy. - Alfred Renyi

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

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart. - Harvey Mackay

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

A convention is a splendid place to study human nature. Man in a crowd is quite a different creature than man acting alone. - William Jennings Bryan

Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed. - Linda Wooten

Understand the key factors in the math behind viral marketing, and use those to figure out what it takes to get viral growth. - David Skok

Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. - Gerard M. Edelman

I bought a self learning record to learn Spanish. I turned it on and went to sleep; the record got stuck. The next day I could only stutter in Spanish. - Steven Wright

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain,
With grammar, and nonsense, and learning.
Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,
Gives genius a better discerning. - Oliver Goldsmith

The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune. - Godfrey Hardy

Rethink training: the best process of learning is on the the job, just-in-time, 'nibble-knowledge' to incrementally transform mindsets and skillsets irrevocably. - Tony Dovale

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. - Shirley Jones

Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb. - Mitch Daniels

Studies of social games, puzzle games, and brain-training games have shown they have little effect on the brain despite often being marketed as improving memory and reaction speeds. - Daphne Bavelier

Companies are learning that it's much better to offer customers a place to give direct feedback at their virtual doorstep than to ignore complaints and let them crop up everywhere. - Dan Solomon

How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation. - Niccolo Machiavelli

There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour. It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with. - James May

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. - Bertrand Russell