Showing posts with label Islamic Saying. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Islamic Saying. Show all posts

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Quote (#538)

"Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done."
- Carl Friedrich Gauss

"Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing."
- Georges Danton (1759-1794), to his executioner

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to
make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their
minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects,
teach them to think straight, if possible.
- Robert M. Hutchins

The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins

Knowledge is of two kinds - that which is absorbed
and that which is just heard. The one that is heard
does not give benefit unless it is absorbed.
- Islamic Saying

"A religion contradicting science and a science
contradicting religion are equally false."
- P. D. Ouspensky (1878-1947)

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Quote (#537)

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
- Derek Bok (1930-), Harvard University President

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..."
- General John Sedgwick (1813-1864), last words

Life's an open book and an education
helps you write success stories.
- Joyce A. Myers

Education is the transmission of civilization.
- Ariel Durant

The ink of a scholar is more
sacred than the blood of a martyr.
- Islamic Saying

"Science has proof without any certainty.
Creationists have certainty without any proof."
- Ashley Montague (1905-1999)