Favorite Quotes

Lots of people in our group seem to find that other people have eloquent words that say what we're thinking. Here are a collection of some of our favorites.

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is as well to remember that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." -Oscar Wilde

 

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardens who make our souls blossom (thank you) "-Marcel Proust

 

"Instead of having 'answers' on a math test, they should just call them 'impressions' and if you got a different 'impression' so what, can't we all be brothers?" --Ah, the wistful dream of an English major

 

" . . . historically, Americans have been notoriously careless in recognizing their own visionaries." ~Michael Patrick Hearn in the centennial edition of The Annotated Wizard of Oz

 

"Once you teach someone, you become part of that person and that person becomes part of you." Tom Brown

 

"Whatever you want to do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." Goethe

 

"...the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. " Jack Kerouac