QUOTE VAULT

Creativity

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. -Carl Jung

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.~Angela Monet

Curiosity

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ~ Ellen Parr

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music--the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls, and interesting people. Forget yourself.~Henry Miller

Education

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."-- Mark Twain

We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world.- Joseph Chilton Pearce

To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it,
requires brains.--Mary Pettibone Poole

Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. ~ John Dewey

Freedom & Education

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have. -- John Holt

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.-- Bertrand Russell

Freedom & Choice

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance toformulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.--C. Wright Mills

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.--Leo Buscaglia

One of the joys we have in being human is in exercising our freedom to choose and to take each case as it comes  to us. We are not robots who are forced into behaviors by their programming. We see things; we think about things; and we choose our course of action or beliefs appropriately. And as long as that remains true of us, we will live every day of our lives on one slippery slope or another. There is not reason to fear this.~Real Live Preacher!

Experience

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.--Auguste Rodin

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.~ Samuel Smiles

You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. ~ Ethel Barrymore

Individuality/Being Different

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.--Carl Rogers

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.--Confusius

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.--Eleanor Roosevelt

Perfection

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.~Anna Quinlin

Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.~ Burk Hudson

Power

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.--Carl Sagan

Questions

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change. -Richard Bach

"To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions."-Sam Keen

Socialization

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.~Sandra Day O'Conner

I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.~Pearl S. Buck

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.~May Sarton

Truth

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil."-Alfred North Whitehead

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[Jennifer Jarman]

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
--Albert Einstein

"The most important thing is to not stop questioning."
--Albert Einstein

[Leslie Montemayor]

"We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he
is someone today."
Stacie Tauscher

[Susan G]

The cure for boredom is curiosity.
The cure for curiosity is school.

[Susan G]

The cure for boredom is curiosity.
The cure for curiosity is school.

[Jim Ware]

It's like a trapeze; you have to let go to catch on. James Robert ware

[Michelle]

"TRUTH, LIKE SURGERY MIGHT HURT. BUT IT CURES"

"ONCE YOU'VE TAKEN A FEW PUNCHES AND REALIZE THAT YOU'RE NOT MADE OUT OF GLASS, YOU DON'T FEEL ALIVE UNLESS YOUR PUSHING IT AS FAR AS YOU CAN GO." GSH

[Marsha Ransom]

“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes