Notecards For Research Quotes & Sayings

The greatest gift of education, Korya, is the years of shelter provided when learning. Do not think to reduce that learning to facts and the utterances of presumed sages. Much of what one learns in that time is in the sphere of concord, the ways of society, the proprieties of behaviour and thought. Haut would tell you that this is another hard-won achievement of civilization: the time and safe environment in which to learn how to live. When this is destroyed, undermined or discounted, then that civilization is in trouble. — Steven Erikson

Iranian high school students learned how to draw microscopes and how to write letter-perfect descriptions of the way in which microscopes worked, but the microscopes in Iranian schools usually remained locked up as property too valuable to be put in students' hands. The — Roy Mottahedeh

I think the 16 years that I spent in Green Bay speaks for itself. — Brett Favre

I'm so grateful that I can play and that I can execute what I hear in my head, because that's the tricky part. — Alicia Keys

Walking a trail frees my mind to wander.... — Debra Lauman

Remember, just because something hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it's impossible. — Brad Meltzer

Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button. — Jack Kevorkian

People in great need were quick to find blame in themselves, quick to assume the burden of guilt for things they in truth had no control over and could not hope to change. It was, she had begun to understand, integral to the very nature of belief, of faith. A need that could not be answered by the self was then given over to someone or something greater than oneself, and this form of surrender was a lifting of a vast, terrible weight. — Steven Erikson

The great radio telescopes of the world are constructed in remote locations for the same reason Paul Gauguin sailed to Tahiti: For them to work well they must be far from civilization. — Carl Sagan

The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods. — King James I

Many countries in the world do not allow GMO crops because of the known health risks and the unknown consequences when it comes to human consumption. — John Bergman

If you want the things people don't have, you have to do the things other people will not do. — Cory Booker

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness. — Israel Shenker