Seeds

It is not the strongest of the species that

survives, nor the most intelligent, but the

one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)

A room without books is

like a body without a soul.
Cicero, (Attributed)

Whoever ceases to be a student

has never been a student.
George Iles

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius,

Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable

opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence

of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own

personal joy and to the profit of the community to

which your later work belongs.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

No price is too high to pay for

the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I believe that whoever tries to think things through

honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and

even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes.

What can the man of good will do to combat this

deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage

to set an example by words and deed, and must

watch lest his children become influenced by

racial bias.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the

unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the

slight details we are able to perceive with our frail

and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction

of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which

is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms

my idea of God
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

One hand washes the other.
(Manus Manum Lavet)
Seneca

One should count each day a separate life.
Seneca

Speech is the mirror of the mind.
(Imago Animi Sermo Est)
Seneca

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
Seneca

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Seneca

Never discourage anyone... who continually

makes progress, no matter how slow.
Plato

You can discover more about a person in an

hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Plato

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by,

time will change and even reverse many of your

present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from

setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
Plato, The Republic

The beginning is the most

important part of the work.
Plato, The Republic

The direction in which education starts

a man will determine his future life.
Plato, The Republic

Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes

Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Only the educated are free.
Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses

Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), from

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent

It's choice - not chance - that

determines your destiny.
Jean Nidetch

In the field of observation, chance favors

only the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895), lecture 1854

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine

per cent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931),

Whose neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Phrixus

I would never die for my beliefs

because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is

an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the

ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

He plants trees to benefit

another generation.
Caecilius Statius (220 BC - 168 BC)

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit

than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
Cicero

Gratitude is not only the greatest of

virtues, but the parent of all others.
Cicero, 'Pro Plancio,' 54 B.C.

It has been said that man is a rational animal.

All my life I have been searching for evidence

which could support this.
Bertrand Russell

Although the world is full of suffering, it is

full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Only through experience of trial and suffering can

the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and

success achieved.
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and

silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin

to be content
Helen Keller

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look

the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world

cannot be seen or even touched. They must be

felt within the heart.
Helen Keller

We could never learn to be brave and patient,

if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not

exist in nature.... Life is either a daring

adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller, The Open Door (1957)

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.

Teach a man to fish and you feed him for

a lifetime.
Chinese Proverb

When you have only two pennies left in the world,

buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)

Nothing in the world can take the place of

Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more

common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost

a proverb. Education will not; the world is full

of educated derelicts. Persistence and

determination alone are omnipotent. The

slogan 'Press On' has solved and always

will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)

The whole life of man is but a

point of time; let us enjoy it.
Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated

more effective than the educated when

addressing popular audiences.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Rhetoric

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

For a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou

shalt find it after many days.

Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

A little one shall become a thousand, and

a small one a strong nation.

We all do fade as a leaf.

Conhecimento não se transfere, se constrói.

Paulo Freire

O mundo abre passagem ao homem que sabe para onde está a indo.

Ralph Wlado Emerson

Somos o que repetidamente fazemos. A excelência, portanto, não é um feito, mas um hábito.

Aristóteles

Autodidata: ignorante por conta própria.

Mario Quintana

O homem pode tornar-se culto a partir da cultura dos outros, mas somente se torna sábio pela própria experiência.

Provérbio Chinês

Pedras no caminho? Guardo todas; um dia vou construir um castelo".

Fernando Pessoa

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid

of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when

men are afraid of the light.
Plato

The great aim of education is not

knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)

The trees that are slow to grow

bear the best fruit.
Moliere (1622 - 1673)

The harvest truly is plenteous,

but the laborers are few.

There is no new thing under the sun.

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth,

it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on

the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine

The superior man is modest in his speech,

but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

Words without actions are the

assassins of idealism.
Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964)

I have always thought the actions of men the

best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke (1632 - 1704)

A positive attitude may not solve all your

problems, but it will annoy enough people

to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)

You need chaos in your soul to

give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche

For believe me: the secret for harvesting

from existence the greatest fruitfulness

and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Out of life's school of war: What does

not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche

What does not kill me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary

minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity;

and brutes by instinct.
Cicero

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man

is king. [In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]
Desiderius Erasmus, Adagia (III, IV, 96)

Take rest; a field that has

rested gives a bountiful crop.
Ovid

The cause is hidden.

The effect is visible to all.
Ovid

Nothing is stronger than habit.
Ovid, Ars Amatoria

Education is a progressive

discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant (1885 - 1981)

I respect faith, but doubt is what

gets you an education.
Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)

I don't know the key to success,

but the key to failure is trying to

please everybody.
Bill Cosby (1937 - )

We make a living by what we get,

we make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

The heart has its reasons which

reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal

I hope you love birds too. It is economical.

It saves going to Heaven.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

The tree is known by his fruit.

"We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots, and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering, and shame. In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness, all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing. With just a little witty skepticism we can kill a good deal of the future in a young person. Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet."
Hermann Hesse, German poet and novelist.

Deus move o céu inteiro naquilo que o ser humano é incapaz de fazer, mas não move uma palha naquilo que a capacidade humana pode resolver.

Antigo ditado oriental

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