Alphabetized by author’s last name .

Dr. White's Favorite Quotes Live it. Learn it. Love it. Alphabetized by author’s last name.

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“Thinking is important, but only if it changes the way you feel.” --Jenny Adkins

“Happy is he who doth pass length of life in sureness of hope and doth feed his heart on gladness sprung from a conscience clear.” ~Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."--Kofi Annan, former U.N. Secretary-General

“Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry at the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—this is not easy.” --Aristotle

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” -Aristotle

"Nature does nothing uselessly." --Aristotle

"In a free society, i.e. a society that promotes human freedom, students would be able to think for themselves and develop minds of their own to make judgments based on evidence and argument, and to build capacities for exploration and invention. They would be encouraged to ask the most fundamental and essential questions that are, like the young themselves, always in motion, dynamic, and never twice the same: Who in the world am I? How did I get here and where am I going? What in the world are my choices and my chances? What did I learn that the teacher did not know? What is my story, and how is it like or unlike the stories of others? What is my responsibility to those others?" --William and Rick Ayers

“Over the course of several hundred years, new people come along and each lays down a block on top of the old foundations… Then comes along an historian who asks, ‘Well, who built the cathedral?’ Peter added some stones here, and Paul added a few more. If you are not careful, you can con yourself into believing that you did the most important part. But the reality is that each contribution has to follow on to previous work. Everything is tied to everything else.” --Paul Baran, Founding Father of the Internet

“I would prefer not to.”~Bartleby the Scrivener”

“Me against my brother, my brothers and me against my cousins, then my cousins and me against strangers.”-- Bedouin proverb

“The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge." --Ambrose Bierce

“Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect.” ~Ambrose Bierce

I was angry with my friend:I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe:I told it not, my wrath did grow. -William Blake

“I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of people would die for Him.” --Napoleon Bonaparte

"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.” --Buddha

“Life is trying things out to see if they will work.”--Ray Bradbury

“A conversation should not be a market in which one sells and another buys. Rather, it should be a bargaining back and forth, and each person should be merchant and buyer. My rubber plant for your victrola, each offering what he has and seeking his deficiency.”--Charles Brooks

"Imagine we are all the same. Imagine we agree about politics, religion, and morality. Imagine we like the same types of music, art, food, and coffee. Imagine we all look alike. Sound boring? Differences need not divide us. Embrace diversity. Dignity is everyone's human right."--Bill Brummel (documentary filmmaker)

“Go forth, under the open sky and list to Nature’s teachings,While from all around, Earth and her waters, and the depths of air...Comes a still voice.”--William Cullen Bryant from “Thanatopsis”

“The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.” --William Jennings Bryan

“With our thoughts we make the world.”--Buddha

"A teacher is one who makes herself progressively unnecessary." --Thomas Carruthers

"To believe that we evolved with the complexity of this brain from a pool of promiscuous biochemicals during a lightning storm--that requires a lot of faith—way more faith than I have." ~Ben Carson

“Let your soul be a shining beacon that guides others from darkness.” --John Calef

“We think too much, and feel too little.”--Charlie Chaplin

“Only the unloved hate.”--Charlie Chaplin

"You cannot criticize or blame someone without revealing something about yourself." --Deepak Chopra

“The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.” --Cicero

“I do not believe that differences need to lead to conflict.” --Jane Claypool

“I choose to experience joy in the abundance of life, including the wealth of ways that others live and express themselves.” --Jane Claypool

“This great nation was founded on principles of equality and religious freedom. Its strength comes from diversity.” --Jane Claypool

"Self-interest ultimately leads to a loss of self and a decreased awareness of others."--Jennifer Cline, L.P.C. [Conversely, denial of self leads to the gaining of self and an increased awareness of others.]

“True knowledge is knowing the extent of one’s ignorance.” --Confucius

“Heaven has no rage like love turned to hatred. Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.” --William Congreve

“To hold science up as the One and Only Truth is a kind of fundamentalism in itself.” --JohannahCornblatt

“Emotional maturity is the ability to express one’s own feelings and convictions, balanced with consideration for the thoughts and feelings of others.” --Stephen Covey

“One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present. When you defend those who are absent, you retain the trust of those present.” --Stephen Covey

“The Abundance Mentality flows out of a deep inner sense of personal worth and security. It is the paradigm that there is plenty out there and enough to spare for everybody. It results in sharing of prestige, of recognition, of profits, of decision-making. It opens possibilities, options, alternatives, and creativity.” --Stephen Covey

“As you live your values, you will find exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people’s opinions or by comparisons to others. Ironically, you will find that as you care less about what others think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves and their worlds, including their relationship with you. In addition, you will find it easier and more desirable to change because there is something—some core deep within—that is essentially changeless.” --Stephen Covey

“In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.” --Stephen Covey

“Happiness is a pro-active choice.” --Stephen Covey

“Each of us has many, many maps in our head which can be divided into two main categories: maps of the way things are—or realities, and maps of the way things should be--or values. We interpret everything we experience through these mental maps.”--Stephen Covey

“People can’t change if there’s not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about, and what you value.” --Stephen Covey

Alphabetized by author’s last name .