School Speed Limit

The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing. - Jean Cocteau

Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone. - Henry Smith

Education is hanging around until you've caught on. - Robert Frost

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. - Herbert Spencer

The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying. - Isaac Asimov

The way to avoid roadblocks to learning is to ask questions. - Joseph J. Thomas

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Francis Bacon

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. - Mark Twain

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education. - William Hazlitt

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. - John F Kennedy

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. - Zen Proverb

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis. - Elvis Presley

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. - Woody Allen

If everybody in the world dropped out of school, we would have a much more intelligent society. - Jaden Smith

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. - Stephen Leacock

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. - Gen. Colin L. Powell

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. - Christopher Columbus

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term. - Mark Twain

The seeds of learning can grow almost anywhere. Trump University and my other education-related ventures like... - Donald Trump

I love solving puzzles, I love finding my way around obstacles, and I love learning new things about technology. - Kevin Mitnick

Play is a vital learning medium for a child. In a sense play is his work. And he discovers knowledge for himself. - Raymond Moore

It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. - Woody Allen

NASA scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits. - Joanna Lumley

Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. - Gerard M. Edelman

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde

Discipleship does not come from positions of prominence, wealth, or advanced learning. The disciples of Jesus came from all walks of life. - James E Faust

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing. - Philip Gilbert Hamilton

What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same? - Huckleberry Finn

I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear the sound of closing doors. - James Caballero

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college. - Bill Vaughan

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry. - H L Mencken

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson. - Tom Bodett

As an adult and a parent, when I'm not acting, I'm not acting. I'm being a parent, and I'm on the school run, and I'm sewing labels onto socks. - Kate Winslet

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause. - Charles Morgan

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation. - Niccolo Machiavelli

The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most. - Jay Leno

There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour. It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with. - James May

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. - Bertrand Russell

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. - Thomas Aquinas