| Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. -- Chinese proverb |
| Mr. Thier's Favorite Quotations |
| My Favorite Quotations |
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| Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. -- Confucius |
| Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. -- Lord Chesterfield |
| The wisest mind has something yet to learn. -- George Santayana |
| Ability will never catch up with the demand for it -- Malcolm Forbes |
| The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence -- Amos Bronson Alcott |
| If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others -- Tryon Edwards |
| You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. -- Ray Bradbury |
| The things you own end up owning you. -- Chuck Palahniuk |
| Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin |
| Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind -- John F. Kennedy |
| Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal -- John F. Kennedy |
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