Educational Sayings

I don't have any more hope. Nothing to expect with joy so why work - why bother when I will have to eventually die one day. The knowledge to have done something great should be its own recompose. Which is the best painting? A miserable copy, a misera…

I have always been a great admirer of the wisdom of the ancients, and I have always been of the opinion that there is a great deal to be learned from them.

Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who reject you, and insult you, and smite you?

I want to be a writer who is not afraid to be imperfect. I want to be a writer who is not afraid to make mistakes. I want to be a writer who is not afraid to learn.

I'm not a saint, and I'm not a sinner. I'm just a man. I'm a man who's been through a lot, and I'm a man who's learned a lot. And I'm a man who's still learning.

I have been out among the people on the platform and in their homes for the last fifty years; and the one thing I have learned is that the women of the country are ready for the ballot, and that they will have it.

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

One thing I flatly refuse to give money to is the support of any college. I've been wooed by some of the finest universities in the land, but I tell them they will not get a cent from me unless they put in a trade school. Our colleges are crowded wit…