| ScholarDragon's Quotes Page |
| "The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand." - Frank Herbert |
| "Come not between the dragon, and his wrath." - William Shakespeare, King Lear |
| "It's hard to stop Muggles from noticing us if we're keeping dragons in the back garden - anyways, you can't tame dragons, it's dangerous." - Ron Weasley |
| "Never laugh at live dragons." - JRR Tolkein, The Hobbit |
| "Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth... Tame the dragon and the gift is yours." - Noela Evans |
| "He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche |
| "We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves." - Tom Robbins |
| "There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." - Bertrand Russell |
| "Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein |
| "Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportuntity to commit more." - Mark Twain |
| "An angry man defeats himself in battle as well as in life." - (Black Belt Rank Test Quote) |
| "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." - Immanuel Kant |
| "Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep." - Fran Lebowitz |
| "Drama is life with the dull bits cut out." - Alfred Hitchcock |
| "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon, Beautiful Boy |
| "It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up." - W. Somerset Maugham |
| "There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them." - Emile Chartier |
| "Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired." - Robert Frost |
| "Anatomy is destiny." - Sigmund Freud |
| "Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time." - Marbel Morgan, The Electric Woman |
| "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein |
| To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer." - Farmer's Almanac |
| "The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it." - PB Medawar |
| "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." - Will Durant |
| "Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled." - Wu Ting-Fang |
| "A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends." - Antisthenes |
| "Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending onself that one becomes rich." - Sarah Bernhardt |
| "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts |
| "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mhatma Gandhi |
| "It is easier to get forgiveness than permission." - Stuart's Law of Retroaction |
| "In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved." - Franklin D Rossevelt |
| "He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere." - Ali ibn-Abi-Talib, A Hundred Sayings |
| "Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." - Albert Camus |
| "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." - Carl Jung |
| "When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends." - Japanese Proverb |
| "Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped." - Elbert Hubbard |
| "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas A Edison, Harper's Monthly |
| "The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated." - Baltasar Gracian |
| "A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver." - Eleanor Hamilton |
| "Good habits result from resisting temptation." - Ancient Proverb |
| "Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established." - Confucius, The Confucian Analects |
| "In time we hate that which we often fear." - William Shakespeare |
| "A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses." - Hippocrates, Regimen in Health |
| "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain |
| "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards." - Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign |
| "The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions." - Confucius, The Confucian Analects |
| "Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood." - Mary Hirsch |
| "Man's mind, once stretched by an new idea, never regains its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "The soul of man is immortal and imperishable." - Plato, The Republic |
| "Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not." - Oprah Winfrey, Good Housekeeping |
| "A mind too active is no mind at all." - Robert J Shiller, Irrational Exuberance |
| "Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage." - Agesiaus the Second |
| "Injustict anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King Jr, Letter from Birmingham Jail |
| "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop, The Lion and the Mouse |
| "To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge." - Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil |
| "If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane." - Jimmy Buffett |
| "When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love." - Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince |
| "Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Memory feeds imagination." - Amy Tan |
| "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." - Mahatma Gandhi |
| "An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." - Niels Bohr |
| "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle |
| "Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still." - Robert Sternberg |
| "Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind." - Leonardo da Vinci |
| "Let him who desires peace prepare for war." - Flavius Vegetius Renatus |
| "I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to preservere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." - Christopher Reeve |
| "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Chinese Proverb |
| "Respect yourself and others will respect you." - Confucius |
| "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness." - Josh Billings |
| "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi |
| "First weigh the considerations, then take the risks." - Helmuth von Moltke |
| "To win without risk is to triumph without glory." - Pierre Corneille, The Cid |
| "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein |
| "Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." - William Dement |
| "There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance." - Hippocrates, Law |
| "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...' " - Isaac Asimov |
| "Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln |
| "I don't know the key to sucess, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby |
| "The highest result of education is tolerance." - Hellen Keller |
| "The truth is rarely pure and never simple." - Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest |
| "The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities... It is best to win without fighting." - Sun-tzu, The Art of War |
| "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell |
| "To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." - Marilyn vos Savant |
| "Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work." - Peter Drucker |
| "Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything." - Mary Hemingway |
| "Always be polite to a dragon. It's harder than it sounds. Dragon etiquette is incredibly complicated, and if you make a mistake, the dragon eats you." - Patricia C Wrede |
| "Well if there's enough room for a chowder-head like you, then there is more than enough room for a dragon." - Nora, Pete's Dragon |
| "Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try." - Yoda |
| "Size matters now. Look at me. Judge me for my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm." - Yoda |