My favorite quotes, continued

"We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?"
— Arthur C. Clarke

"To the world you might be one person, but to one person you just might be the world."
— Unknown

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
— Rabindranath Tagore

"You can't help getting older but you don't have to get old."
— George Burns

"The soul would have no rainbows if the eyes had no tears"
— Native American Proverb

"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
— Kahlil Gibran

"A friend is someone whose face lights up when they see you, and they don’t have any immediate plans for your improvement."
— bcoffin
(http://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/a-true-friend-stabs-you-in-the-front/)

"Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between."
— Maya Angelou (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)

"It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line."
— Ashleigh Brilliant

"Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time."
— Anon (If you have an attribution, please let me know.)

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
— Sicilian Proverb

"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."
— Isaac Asimov

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own."
— Benjamin Disraeli

"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
— Carl Sagan

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."
— Albert Einstein

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

"Imagination is more important than knowledge..."
— Albert Einstein

"If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative."
— Arthur C. Clarke, The Exploration of Space, 1951

"We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?"
— Arthur C. Clarke

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
— Albert Einstein

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. "
— Author Unknown

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' "
— Isaac Asimov

"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing."
— Isaac Asimov

"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."
— Carl Sagan

"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be."
— Isaac Asimov