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There are several pages of quotes for copy work in Italics, Beautiful Handwriting for Children. But here are some that I’ve
come across since that was published. First here is my own quote: Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance. --Merlyn in The
Once and Future King by T. H. White, p. 41 Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person. --Warren Bennis
Learning is its own exceeding great reward. --William Hazlitt One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
In order to learn, one must change one’s mind. --Orson Scott Card Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. --Aristotle One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. --Sophocles
They know enough who know how to learn. --Henry Brooks Adams The wisest mind has something yet to learn. --George Santayana What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are small matters compared to what lies
within us. --Henry David Thoreau No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted --Aesop Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. --Goethe
A day of traveling will bring a basketful of learning. --Vietnamese Proverb Smooth seas do not make good sailors. --African Proverb If there is no wind, row. --Roman Proverb
To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty --Roman Proverb He who restrains his anger overcomes his greatest enemy. --Roman Proverb Words fly away, the written letters remain. --Roman Proverb
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation , as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. --Francis Bacon Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater. --Einstein
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. --Albert Einstein Mathematics possesses not only truth, but also supreme beauty. --Bertrand A. W. Russell
The object of art is to give life a shape. --Jean Anouilh Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and
rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow. --Sir John Lubbock It is better that a crime is left unpunished than that an innocent man is punished. --Roman Proverb Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. --Mark Twain
If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze. --St. Catherine of Siena When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. --George
Washington Carver Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. --Mark Twain Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning. --Thomas Edison
The shallower the brook, the more it babbles. --Indonesian Proverb Dost thou love life? Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. --Ben Franklin
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. --Mark Twain Forgetting trouble is the way to cure it. --Latin Proverb Well done is better than well said. --Ben Franklin
However long the night, the dawn will bread. --African Proverb The rain falls on every roof. --African Proverb Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him. --African Proverb
Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them. --African Proverb His books were the closest things he had to furniture, and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs. --author Laura Hillenbrand
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. --Francis Bacon Keep away from small people who try to
belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great. --Mark Twain Whatever you have spend less. --Samuel Johnson The marvelous richness of
human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. --Helen Keller Be the living
expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting. --Mother Teresa
Science’s tools will never prove or disprove God’s existence. --Francis Collins, scientist Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. --Mark Twain Morality comes from a commitment to treat
other as we wish to be treated, which follows from the realization that none of us is the sole occupant of the universe. --Steven Pinker, Harvard PROVERBS in English then in Latin: Learning is a kind of
natural food for the mind. Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum. --Cicero Men learn while they teach. Homines, dum docent, discunt. All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price. Nosse
velint omnes, mercedem solvere nemo. --Juvenal The dice have been cast. Alea iacta est. --Julius Caesar I will either find a way or I will make one. Aut inveniam viam aut faciam.
One who has lived well has lived unnoticed. Bene qui latuit, bene vixit. --Ovid Seize the day. Carpe Diem. --Horace I think, therefore I am. Cogito, ergo sum. --Descartes
By endurance we conquer. Fortitudine vincimus. Resolutely in deed, gentle in manner. Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo. History is the tutor of life. Historia est vitae magistra.
Love conquers all. Omnia vincit amor. --Vergil Truth never perishes. Veritas numquam perit. --Seneca I came, I saw, I conquered. Veni, vidi, vici! --Julius Caesar
As long as I breath, I hope. Dum spiro, spero. --Ovid If anyone lacks virtue, he lacks nobility. Nobilitate caret si quis virtute caret. --Werner A man of one book. Homo unius libri. --St. Thomas Aquinas |
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