Book Knowlwdge Quotes & Sayings

the value of intellectuals is neither their intellect nor the value of their intellect but the value of what they use their intellect to do — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning. — Maurice Ashley

Sometimes life gives you cotton stockings. Sometimes it gives you a Chanel gown ... — Unknown

Most people, including Ma, preferred to brush unpleasantness away, as if, by sweeping it outside with the dust, it could be forgotten. As if, by acknowledging the existence of something unsavory in their community, they might be tainted by it themselves. — Shilpi Somaya Gowda

And then, at this stage, every dictator comes up with the notorious and typical demand: he asks the people for bodyguards to protect him, the people's champion. — Plato

Doesn't everyone deserve their own version of a happily-ever-after? — Jill Shalvis

Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task. — Alfie Kohn