All Quotes

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
‐‐ Russell Baker

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.
‐‐ Mortimer Adler

An education is a more surefire guarantee that you have possibilities opened to you.
‐‐ Jonathan Taylor Thomas

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
‐‐ Anatole France

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and where graduating students are no longer indebted to the nation, but increasingly indebted to the Australian Taxation Office - that's no way to improve the quality of education.
‐‐ Gough Whitlam

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
‐‐ Anatole France

An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
‐‐ Ida Pauline Rolf

An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affecting the lives of its people - will require top-level attention and a great deal of energy. It should have three elements: aid, diplomacy, and financial disclosure.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
‐‐ Edgar Quinet

An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
‐‐ Lydia M. Child

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.
‐‐ Robert Bork

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts.
‐‐ Gabriela Isler

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

An Egyptian newspaper once publicly identified me as the C.I.A. station chief in Cairo. It seemed so stupid at the time. I was only 24, a little young to be a station chief, and, of course, I was never with the C.I.A.
‐‐ Richard Engel

An eight-hour movie is definitely not a two-hour movie. An eight-hour movie is really like five independent films, if you think about it, because each is usually an hour and a half. In some ways, it is like making a movie. It's just a lot more information.
‐‐ Cary Fukunaga

An elaborate system of etiquette and social standards flowered around the home phone: how long a child might be allowed to stay on the phone, how late one could call without being impolite, and of course, the dread implications of a late night call which violated that norm.
‐‐ John Battelle

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
‐‐ George Eliot

An element of virtually every national security threat and crime problem the FBI faces is cyber-based or facilitated. We face sophisticated cyber threats from state-sponsored hackers, hackers for hire, organized cyber syndicates, and terrorists.
‐‐ James Comey

An elephant always puts his foot into the hole which another elephant's foot has made so that a frequented track is nothing but a series of pits filled with mud and water.
‐‐ Isabella Bird

An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power.
‐‐ Glenn Greenwald

An elite is someone who's for themselves and not for the country.
‐‐ Stephen Bannon

An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.
‐‐ Jami Attenberg

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno

An embellished top with slim pants is great, even for a wedding.
‐‐ Brad Goreski

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.
‐‐ Robert Smithson

An emotion that lives with me is a sense of 'what might have been' had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.
‐‐ Michael Owen

An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.
‐‐ Alan Bates

An EMP attack on America would send us back to the horse and buggy era - without the horse and buggy. If you're a terrorist, this is your ultimate goal, your ultimate asymmetric weapon.
‐‐ Trent Franks

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
‐‐ Charles de Montesquieu

An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter.
‐‐ Noah Feldman

An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.
‐‐ Bob Nelson

An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.
‐‐ Gary Hamel

An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It's a basic tell of character.
‐‐ Anthony Bourdain

An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.
‐‐ Nick Denton

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.
‐‐ Stephen Covey

An empowered public is the foundation for a stronger society, more effective government, and a more successful state.
‐‐ Robert Zoellick

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
‐‐ Thomas Traherne

An empty canvas is full.
‐‐ Robert Rauschenberg

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

An Emraan Hashmi film has come to guarantee certain ingredients: An intense, grey central character, a beautiful girl - if he gets lucky, then two - couple of kisses, a few bold scenes, fabulous music and a climatic twist.
‐‐ Emraan Hashmi

An enchanted love, an awakened love, between two people is a blessing on the entire world.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.
‐‐ John Glenn

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
‐‐ Saadi

An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
‐‐ Jules Verne