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​Useful sayings for the classroom

The mind is like a parachute... it works much better if its open
- Unknown
​A messy desk is only a sign of a messy desk.
- Unknown
​The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn
- Alvin Toffler
​Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation
- Walter Cronkite
​Ancora Imparo, ‘I am still learning
- Michelangelo
​Read, it's hard to think on an empty brain
- Liz Smith
​We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them
- Albert Einstein
​If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow
- John Dewey
​Confidence is the hinge on the door to success.
- Mary O'Hare Dumas
​If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door
- Milton Berle
​It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Unknown
​I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book
- Groucho Marx
​A library is thought in cold storage
- Herbert Samuel
​Reading is seeing by proxy
- Herbert Spencer
​The answers are there, you just need to know where to look.
- Unknown
​The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn
- Alvin Toffler
​Nah, he's like Super Librarian. People forget, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
​The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society
- Edward Asner
​Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose
- Lyndon B. Johnson
​Try to take one day at a time, or several days may attack at once.
- Unknown
​My mind contains many good ideas, but it is not always easy to squeeze one out.
- Unknown
​When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out
- Winnie the Pooh
​It's a dangerous business going out your front door
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
​Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot
- Clarence Thomas
​When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us
- Helen Keller
​Open arms to change, but don’t lose your values.
- Unknown
​Be gentle with the Earth.
- Unknown
​Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
- Unknown
​Knowledge is free at the library. Just bring your own container.
- Unknown
​You can be the architect of change or the tenant of its results.
- Unknown
​Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself
- Chinese Proverb
There are no failures, only unexpected outcomes.
- Unknown
​My guess is about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in doing search
- Craig Silverstein, Google Executive
​Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few are to be chewed and digested
- Francis Bacon
​When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings
- Harold S. Geneen
​He who has a garden and a library, wants for nothing
- Cicero
​The Internet may be the world's greatest library, but let's face it - all the books are scattered on the floor
- D.C. Denison
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