* Alphabetical idioms - lists A :

* list A1 : abbreviated piece of nothing → (hold all the) aces * list A2 : achilles heel → alarm bells * list A3 : all along → all the rage * list A4 : all sizzle and no steak → apple of your eye * list A5 : (upset the) applecart → at all costs * list A6 : at this stage of the game → (have an) axe to grind

* Alphabetical idioms - lists B :

* list B1 : (leave someone holding the) baby → in bad shape * list B2 : badger someone → whole new ball game * list B3 : ballpark figure → battle lines are drawn * list B4 : battle of wills → beat a dead horse * list B5 : beat a hasty retreat → before your very eyes * list B6 : beggar can't be choosers → beside yourself * list B7 : best bet → beyond any reasonable doubt * list B8 : beyond one's wildest dreams → bite the bullet * list B9 : bite the dust → blamestorming * list B10 : blank cheque → blow away the cobwebs * list B11 : blow a fuse → above board * list B12 : in the same boat → bored to tears * list B13 : born with silver spoon in your mouth → all brawn no brain * list B14 : know which side your bread is buttered → a breeze * list B15 : bricks and mortar/bricks and clicks → pass the buck * list B16 : kick the bucket → burning question * list B17 : bury your head in the sand → by degrees

* Alphabetical idioms - lists C :

* list C1 : (in) cahoots with → burn the candle at both ends * list C2 : (paddle one's own) canoe → carrot and stick * list C3 : carry the can → fat cat * list C4 : cat nap → catch as catch can * list C5 : caught in the crossfire → change the face of * list C6 : change of heart → chicken out * list C7 : chickens come home to roost → chips are down * list C8 : (as useful as a) chocolate teapot → clip someone's wings * list C9 : clock in/out → cold calls * list C10 : cold turkey → come to grips * list C11 : come to a head → common ground * list C12 : common knowledge → couch potato * list C13 : cough up → cream of the crop * list C14 : cream rises to the top → at cross purposes * list C15 : cross the Rubicon → a cut above * list C16 : cut both ways → cut it fine * list C17 : cut it out → cutting edge

* Alphabetical idioms - lists D :

* list D1 : dab hand at something → dead in the water * list D2 : dead loss → (like a) deer caught in the headlights * list D3 : (by) degrees → dice are loaded * list D4 : dice with death → disappear into thin air * list D5 : disaster written all over → dog-eat-dog * list D6 : dog and pony show → (in the) doghouse * list D7 : (in the) doldrums → down in the mouth * list D8 : down payment → dressed to kill * list D9 : dressed up to the nines → dry (or dummy) run * list D10 :sitting duck → dying for

* Alphabetical idioms - lists E :

* list E1 : eager beaver → eat crow * list E2 : eat dirt → (walk on) eggshells * list E3 : ego trip → even keel * list E4 : even the score → eagle eyes * list E5 : eyes in the back of your head → eyes on stalks

* Alphabetical idioms - lists F :

* list F1 : face like a bulldog → facts speak for themselves * list F2 : fair and square → fall on deaf ears * list F3 : fall on sword → fat cat * list F4 : fat chance → feet of clay * list F5 : (back on your) feet → (play second) fiddle * list F6 : fiddling while Rome burns → finger in every pie * list F7 : put a finger on → in the first place * list F8 : (of the) first water → fit for purpose * list F9 : fit to be tied → fly-by-night * list F10 : fly by seat of one's pants → (on a) fool's errand * list F11 : fool's paradise → forewarned is forearmed * list F12 : forty winks → freudian slip) * list F13 : friends in high places → fur coat

* Alphabetical idioms - lists G :

* list G1 : gab of the gab → get cracking * list G2 : get down to brass tacks → get off the hook * list G3 : get on your high horse → get your skates on * list G4 : get to bottom → give run-around * list G5 : give the shirt off one's back → go against the tide * list G6 : go all out → go hand in hand * list G7 : go haywire → go postal * list G8 : go to hell in a handcart → gone with the wind * list G9 : good as gold →green fingers * list G10 : green light → gutter press

* Alphabetical idioms - lists H :

* list H1 : (old) habits die hard → half a mind * list H2 : hammer home → hands tied * list H3 : (wash your) hands of → happy as Larry * list H4 : happy-go-lucky→ have you gone out of your mind? * list H5 : have kittens → hear through grapevine * list H6 : heart's content → heebie jeebies * list H7 : hell broke loose → hidden agenda * list H8 : high and dry → hit panic button * list H9 : hit the road → (not) hold water * list H10 : holier-than-thou → horns of a dilemma * list H11 : horse of a different colour → (not give) house room * list H12 : (on the) house → hustle and bustle

* Alphabetical idioms - lists I :

* list I1 : break the ice → in essence * list I2 : in the first place → in retrospect * list I3 : in safe hands → be an item

* Alphabetical idioms - lists J :

* list J1 : jack of all trades → jump the gun * list J2 : jump for joy → just the ticket

* Alphabetical idioms - lists K :

* list K1 : kangaroo court → keep your nose to the grindstone * list K2 : keep your options open → kick yourself * list K3 : a kickback → kowtow to someone

* Alphabetical idioms - lists L :

* list L1 : labour of love → laugh all the way * list L2 : laugh off → leave high and dry * list L3 : leave no stone unturned → let bygones be bygones * list L4 : let me bounce this off you → keep a lid on * list L5 : lie in → see in new light * list L6 : (shed) light → lipstick on a pig * list L7 : live beyond your means → (a) load off your mind * list L8 : loan shark → look the picture of health) * list L9 : look a sight → at a loss

* Alphabetical idioms - lists M :

* list M1 : mad as a hatter →make an exhibition of * list M2 : make flesh crawl → make nothing of * list M3 : (can't) make an omelette → (find your) match * list M4 : matter of time → middle of nowhere * list M5 : (smack dab in the) middle → mind your Ps and Qs * list M6 : (in one's) mind's eye → money for old rope * list M7 : money doesn't grow → (once in blue) moon * list M8 : reach for the moon → move heaven and earth * list M9 : move in the same circles → my way or the highway

* Alphabetical idioms - lists N :

* list N1 : nailing jelly to the wall → nest egg * list N2 : never a dull moment → night owl * list N3 : nine-day wonder→ no hard feelings * list N4 : no holds barred → not give the time of day * list N5 : not in the same league → nuts and bolts

* Alphabetical idioms - lists O :

* list O1 : odds and ends → can't make an omelette * list O2 : on the cards → one good turn * list O3 : one hand washes the other → open secret * list O4 : open-and-shut case → out on a limb * list O5 : out to lunch → over and done with * list O6 : over the hill → world is your oyster

* Alphabetical idioms - lists P :

* list P1 : put through paces → paper tiger * list P2 : paper trail → not a patch on * list P3 : pay dearly for → penny drops * list P4 : in for a penny → no picnic) * list P5 : picture of health → pillar to post * list P6 : (at a) pinch → play with fire * list P7 : play footsie → pleased as punch * list P8 : pluck out of the air→ politically correct * list P9 : pop one's clogs → pour one's heart out * list P10 : power behind the throne → (a) proper do * list P11 : proud as a peacock → push one's luck * list P12 : if push comes to shove → put one's house in order * list P13 : put in one's place → Pyrrhic victory

* Alphabetical idioms - lists Q :

* list Q : quaking in one's boots → quiet as a mouse

* Alphabetical idioms - lists R :

* list R1 : race against time → rake in the money * list R2 : ram down someone's throat → rear its ugly head * list R3 : recharge one's batteries → refresh someone's memory * list R4 : regain one's composure → (a) rip-off * list R5 : ripple effect → (when in) Rome do as the Romans * list R6 : (go through the) roof → (bend the) rules * list R7 : run down → (in a) rut

* Alphabetical idioms - lists S :

* list S1 : (get the) sack → (in the) same boat * list S2 : (by the) same token → scales fall from your eyes * list S3 : scarce as hen's teeth → sea legs * list S4 : seal of approval → seen better days * list S5 : sell down the river → settle a score * list S6 : shake like a leaf → ship has sailed * list S7 : ships that pass in the night → short end of the stick * list S8 : short fuse → shrug something off * list S9 : shut the stable door when horse ... → simplicity itself * list S10 : since time immemorial → skeleton staff * list S11 : skin a cat → slice of the cake * list S12 : sling mud → (a) smash hit * list S13 : smoke like a chimney → sneak preview * list S14 : (not to be) sneezed at → spanner in the works * list S15 : (go) spare → spin a yarn * list S16 : spinach cinema → (no) spring chicken * list S17 : (on the) spur of the moment → starter marriage * list S18 : state of the art → step on someone's toes * list S19 : step out of line → sticky fingers * list S20 : (on a) sticky wicket → (a) storm is brewing * list S21 : (a) storm in a teacup → stretch the truth * list S22 : (in) strict confidence → stubborn as a mule * list S23 : stuck in time warp → sweet nothings * list S24 : sweet tooth → (all) systems go

* Alphabetical idioms - lists T :

* list T1 : tail wagging the dog → take with a grain of salt * list T2 : take the law into your own hands → take the rough with the smooth * list T3 : take shape → take stock * list T4 : take to the cleaners → (run a) taut ship * list T5 : (not for all the) tea in China → text-walking * list T6 : thank one's lucky stars - thick as thieves * list T7 : through thick and thin → thrilled to bits * list T8 : (at each other's) throats → (rule of) thumb * list T9 : (all) thumbs → time after time * list T10 : (for the) time being → toing and froing * list T11 : token gesture → toot your own horn * list T12 : (fight) tooth and nail → toy with an idea * list T13 : trade secret → tunnel vision * list T14 : turkeys voting for Christmas → (in the) twinkling of an eye * list T15 : twist someone's arm → put two and two together

* Alphabetical idioms - lists U :

* list U1 : ugly as sin → up in arms * list U2 : up in the air → useful as chocolate teapot

* Alphabetical idioms - lists V :

* list V1 : vanish into thin air → vote with one's feet

* Alphabetical idioms - lists W :

* list W1 : on the wagon → walk a tightrope * list W2 : walking on air → wax lyrical * list W3 : ways and means → wet blanket * list W4 : whale of a time→ white lie * list W5 : whiz kid → get wind of) * list W6 : (know) which way wind blows → wise after the event * list W7 : wise up to → can't see the wood for the trees * list W8 : touch wood → work like a charm * list W9 : work to rule → best of both worlds * list W10 :worlds apart → written all over your face

* Alphabetical idioms - lists X-Y-Z :

* list X-Y-Z : xerox subsidy → zero tolerance

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Photograph by Dawn Ellner
“The only way to have a friend is to be one”

David Tyson Gentry

Photograph by Mohammad Ali F.
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable”

Muhammad Ali

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything”

Jim Henson

“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met”

Bob Marley

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for”

Oscar Wilde

Photograph by Olga Caprotti
“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation”

Plutarch

Photograph by Dimitris Papazimouris
“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Photograph by JD Hancock
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them”

C.S. Lewis

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What!” You Too? I thought I was the only one.”

Mark Twain

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages”

Henry David Thoreau

Photograph by Ross Pollack
“Be true to your work, your word, and your friends”

Marlene Dietrich

Photograph by Bùi Linh Ngân
“It’s the friends that you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter”

Virginia Woolf

“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends”

Linda Grayson

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate”

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. – Khalil Gibran
True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically. – Author Unknown (Internet, probably)
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. – Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. – Woodrow T. Wilson
Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. — Albert Camus
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. – David Tyson Gentry
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one. ― C.S. Lewis
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives. – Alexander Dumas
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant. – Socrates
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. – Samuel Butler
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. – William Shakespeare
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success. – Oscar Wilde
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. – Plutarch
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. – Aristotle
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. – Arthur Brisbane
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. ― Linda Grayson
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. – Oprah Winfrey
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. – Elbert Hubbard
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? – Abraham Lincoln
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. – Buddha
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. – Marlene Dietrich
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. – Henry Ford
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything. – Muhammad Ali
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over. – Octavia Butler
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. – Paramahansa Yogananda
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. – C.S. Lewis
I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff. – Jon Katz
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. – Barbara Kingsolver
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. – Robert Brault
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. – Washington Irving
How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ‘em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ‘em. – Shel Silverstein
Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that. – Ally Condie
Friends are the family you choose – Jess C. Scott
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over. – Ray Bradbury
Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next. – Dean Koontz
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. – Charles Lamb
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friendship that can end never really began – Publilius Syrus
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. – Alice Walker
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. – John Churton Collins
You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job. – Laurence J. Peter
Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and need will fall away. It will bring you onto new ground where affection can grow again. – John O’Donohue
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. – Dale Carnegie
Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends. – Virginia Woolf
The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? – Eugene Kennedy
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead. – Anna Cummins
There comes a point in your life when you realize who really matters, who never did, and who always will.
- Unknown
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A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.
- Unknown
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"If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile... But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me."
- Unknown
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It's the times we're so crazy, that people think we're high.
It's the times we laugh so hard, we can't help but cry.
It's all the inside jokes and "remember whens". those are all the reasons that we're best friends!
- Unknown
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Never explain yourself. Your friends donât need it and your enemies wonât believe it.
- Belgicia Howell
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
- Unknown
Friendship isn't about whom you have known the longest... It's about who came, and never left your side...

Quotes About Education
Quotes tagged as "education" (showing 1-30 of 3,000)

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
45972 likes like “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain tags: education
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― Oscar Wilde tags: education, fashion
8365 likes like “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young tags: education, feminism, men, women
5214 likes like “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― Augustine of Hippo tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
4524 likes like “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela tags: change, education
3344 likes like “When you know better you do better.”
― Maya Angelou tags: education, intelligence, knowledge, wisdom
2399 likes like “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries
2316 likes like “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
― Robert Frost tags: education
2260 likes like “The past has no power over the present moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle tags: education, inspirational, life, philosophy, truth, wisdom
2050 likes like “Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
― Mark Twain tags: education
1578 likes like “The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King tags: curiosity, depression, education, learning, teaching
1502 likes like “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr. tags: education
1492 likes like “If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
― Frank Zappa tags: education, sex
1437 likes like “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
― C.S. Lewis tags: education
1346 likes like “Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ”
― Jane Austen tags: education, women
1177 likes like “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
― Robert Frost tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning, mentoring
1134 likes like “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
― Confucius tags: education, inspirational, life, perseverance
1118 likes like “[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider tags: childhood, education, learning, teaching
1059 likes like “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
― C.S. Lewis tags: character-development, education, ethics
1053 likes like “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle tags: education, ethics
983 likes like “Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand."
"Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon tags: education, humor
980 likes like “A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
― Nelson Mandela tags: education, goodness, intelligence, kindness, scholarship
974 likes like “To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.”
― Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie tags: education, soul
899 likes like “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch tags: curiosity, education, mentoring, mind, thinking
899 likes like “In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. ”
― Fran Lebowitz tags: algebra, education, humor, mathematics
895 likes like “Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns tags: education, marriage
871 likes like “Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre tags: education, prejudice
859 likes like “You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!”
― Bill Watterson tags: calvin-and-hobbes, comic, education, funny, school
831 likes like “Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
Quotes About Education
Quotes tagged as "education" (showing 31-60 of 3,000)

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead tags: children, education, judgement, mentoring, reasoning
1270 likes like “Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook tags: conformity, education, feminism, knowledge-power, quip, school
1066 likes like “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci tags: education, schooling, university
1017 likes like “Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
― G.K. Chesterton tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination
847 likes like “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
― Plato tags: discipline, education, mentoring, philosophy
843 likes like “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
― Malcolm X tags: education, future
837 likes like “Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.”
― Heath L. Buckmaster, Box of Hair: A Fairy Tale tags: education, growth, life, self-acceptance, self-realization
829 likes like “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
― Aristotle tags: education
755 likes like “Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.”
― Charles M. Schulz tags: education, humor
681 likes like “Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather tags: education, simile
594 likes like “The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.”
― Michel Legrand tags: apothegm, education, life, lifelong-learning, lyrics
545 likes like “The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
― Noam Chomsky tags: education, education-system, instituions
527 likes like “Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters tags: education, game-shows, trivia
514 likes like “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
― Henry Ford tags: education, lifelong-learning
499 likes like “In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.”
― Phil Collins tags: education, learning, mentoring, teaching
499 likes like “I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.”
― Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin And Hobbes tags: education
476 likes like “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
― Thomas Jefferson tags: education, illiteracy, journalism, literature
467 likes like “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
― W.B. Yeats tags: education, lifelong-learning
458 likes like “Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.”
― Adelaide Hoodless tags: community, education, inspiriational, proverb, sharing, women
436 likes like “Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”
― Mark Twain, Notebook tags: education
434 likes like “To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
― Theodore Roosevelt tags: character, education, morality
397 likes like “By seeking and blundering we learn.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tags: education, experience, learning-from-mistakes
335 likes like “Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ”
― Pete Seeger tags: education, humor
332 likes like “All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!”
― Kurt Vonnegut tags: censorship, education, free-speech, paraphrased
330 likes like “I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained”
― Walt Disney Company tags: education, entertainment
307 likes like “Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.”
― Claire Fagin tags: education, inspiratonal
291 likes like “I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.”
― Martha Graham tags: dance, dancing, education, experience, learning, performance, practice
267 likes like “In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World tags: education, humor
249 likes like “I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.”
― Charles M. Schulz tags: education, humor
236 likes like “Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
― Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Quotes tagged as "freedom" (showing 1-30 of 3,000)

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
― Gloria Steinem tags: anger, freedom, truth
9162 likes like “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own tags: freedom, women, writing
6600 likes like “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought
5080 likes like “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
― Mahatma Gandhi tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes
4131 likes like “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism,self-awareness, self-determination, women
3399 likes like “When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
― Nelson Mandela tags: crime, freedom, oppression
3116 likes like “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
― Jim Morrison tags: freedom, individuality, inspirational, mask, personality, revolution, truth
3053 likes like “Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars tags: amsterdam, freedom, sin
2905 likes like “War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984 tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war
2876 likes like “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security
2382 likes like “Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
― Jim Morrison tags: bravery, fear, freedom
1977 likes like “Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”
― Bob Marley tags: freedom, liberty, life, revolution
1855 likes like “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons tags: birds, freedom, friends, friendship, letting-go
1826 likes like “Freedom lies in being bold.”
― Robert Frost tags: boldness, courage, freedom
1747 likes like “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved tags: freedom, self
1702 likes like “You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon tags: burdens, empowerment, flying, freedom, unburdening, weight
1694 likes like “Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes tags: freedom
1650 likes like “Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre tags: freedom, inspirational, literature
1586 likes like “I'm single because I was born that way.”
― Mae West tags: bachelorhood, choice, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, self-determination,singleness, singles
1551 likes like “Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
― Judy Blume tags: books, censor, communication, freedom, philosophy
1476 likes like “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
― S.G. Tallentyre tags: freedom
1446 likes like “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
1406 likes like “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln tags: freedom, liberty, slavery
1379 likes like “I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
― Robert A. Heinlein tags: freedom, law, morality, rules
1303 likes like “You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras tags: destruction, freedom
1097 likes like “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”
― Carrie Jones, Need tags: courage, freedom, happiness
1045 likes like “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
― Noam Chomsky tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression
918 likes like “They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of the head. But I say a good love is one that casts you into the wind, sets you ablaze, makes you burn through the skies and ignite the night like a phoenix; the kind that cuts you loose like a wildfire and you can't stop running simply because you keep on burning everything that you touch! I say that's a good love; one that burns and flies, and you run with it!”
― C. JoyBell C. tags: burning, fire, flames, freedom, inspirational-life, inspirational-love, inspirational-love-quotes,inspirational-quotes, inspiring, love, loving-someone, passion, real-love, running, true-love
741 likes like “The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
― José Martí tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution,socialism
720 likes like “For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
― Nelson Mandela

Quotes tagged as "journey" (showing 1-30 of 3,000)

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
5834 likes like “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life tags: books, journey, reading, travel
3381 likes like “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ernest Hemingway tags: goals, journey, travel
1208 likes like “Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.”
― Bob Marley tags: inspirational, journey, life
674 likes like “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974 tags: inspirational, journey, quest, seekers, travel
664 likes like “Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass tags: autonomy, journey, self-reliance
652 likes like “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
― Heraclitus tags: eternity, impermanence, journey, life, mujo
426 likes like “The only journey is the one within.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke tags: introspection, journey, self-discovery, within
380 likes like “The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience tags: action, change, inspirational, journey, letting-go, life
336 likes like “The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth tags: journey, philosophy, quest
334 likes like “All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring tags: glitter, journey, shine, tolkien, travel, wander, wanderlust
314 likes like “Perfectly Imperfect

We have all heard that no two snowflakes are alike. Each snowflake takes the perfect form for the maximum efficiency and effectiveness for its journey. And while the universal force of gravity gives them a shared destination, the expansive space in the air gives each snowflake the opportunity to take their own path. They are on the same journey, but each takes a different path.
Along this gravity-driven journey, some snowflakes collide and damage each other, some collide and join together, some are influenced by wind... there are so many transitions and changes that take place along the journey of the snowflake. But, no matter what the transition, the snowflake always finds itself perfectly shaped for its journey.
I find parallels in nature to be a beautiful reflection of grand orchestration. One of these parallels is of snowflakes and us. We, too, are all headed in the same direction. We are being driven by a universal force to the same destination. We are all individuals taking different journeys and along our journey, we sometimes bump into each other, we cross paths, we become altered... we take different physical forms. But at all times we too are 100% perfectly imperfect. At every given moment we are absolutely perfect for what is required for our journey. I’m not perfect for your journey and you’re not perfect for my journey, but I’m perfect for my journey and you’re perfect for your journey. We’re heading to the same place, we’re taking different routes, but we’re both exactly perfect the way we are.
Think of what understanding this great orchestration could mean for relationships. Imagine interacting with others knowing that they too each share this parallel with the snowflake. Like you, they are headed to the same place and no matter what they may appear like to you, they have taken the perfect form for their journey. How strong our relationships would be if we could see and respect that we are all perfectly imperfect for our journey.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free tags: imperfection, inspirational, journey, life, motivational, perfection, relationships, snowflakes
281 likes like “For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there is shame; for the wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping. We can only fly with two wings and two wings can only stay in the air if there is a balance. Two beautiful wings is perfection. There is a generation of people who idealize perfection as the existence of only one of these wings every time. But I see that a bird with one wing is imperfect. An angel with one wing is imperfect. A butterfly with one wing is dead. So this generation of people strive to always cut off the other wing in the hopes of embodying their ideal of perfection, and in doing so, have created a crippled race.”
― C. JoyBell C. tags: ancient, flight, flying, human-race, humanity, imperfection, inspirational, inspirational-life,inspirational-quotes, inspiring, journey, life, life-and-living, life-s-journey, living, living-life, people,perfect, perfection, the-journey, truth, two-wings, wings, wisdom, wisdom-quotes
247 likes like “It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience tags: appreciation, compassion, god, hope, inspirational, journey, life, motivational, observation
241 likes like “We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”
― Henry Ward Beecher tags: excellence, inspirational, journey, judgment, personal-growth
238 likes like “I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.”
― Billy Joel tags: art, journey, music
236 likes like “So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.”
― Margaret George, The Memoirs Of Cleopatra tags: cleopatra, epiphany, fiction, journey, life, loss, love, relationships
230 likes like “One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.”
― J.A. Konrath tags: insecurity, journey, learning, life, overcoming, truth
221 likes like “It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin tags: journey, travel
220 likes like “Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday tags: attainable, defeat, journey, life, other-side, stop, suffering
219 likes like “Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey.

At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration tags: bond, communication, connecting, connection, hands, holding-hands, journey, reaching-out,together, togetherness, touch, touching
177 likes like “You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.”
― Joss Whedon tags: characters, fiction-writing, human-nature, journey, life-lessons, truth
169 likes like “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”
― Pat Conroy tags: journey, travel
164 likes like “I have walked a stair of swords,
I have worn a coat of scars.
I have vowed with hollow words,
I have lied my way to the stars
-Songs of Sapphique”
― Catherine Fisher, Incarceron tags: journey, lies, scars, stars
150 likes like “Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.”
― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell tags: journey, motivational, richelle-mead, the-indigo-spell
148 likes like “I made up my mind not to care so much about the destination, and simply enjoy the journey.”
― David Archuleta, Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance tags: destination, journey, life, life-lessons
146 likes like “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America tags: journey, marriage
108 likes like “At every given moment we are absolutely perfect for what is required for our journey.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free tags: inspirational, journey, self-confidence, self-empowerment, self-esteem
90 likes like “When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration tags: aim, aim-high, deep, effort, far-reaching, goal, goals, journey, limits, narrow, range, reach, reach-out, reaching-out, stars, trip, universe, wide
57 likes like “If you don’t know exactly where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free