Quotable quotes

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. --Chinese Proverb

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn. - Ben Franklin

"He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul; he that studies only books, the soul without the body. He that to what he sees, adds observation, and to what he reads, reflection, is in the right road to knowledge, provided that in scrutinizing the hearts of others, he neglects not his own." -- Caleb Colton

There is no greater bore than perfection. -- Richard Connell in “The Most Dangerous Game”

The foolish gains that status not only by what they do but also by what they fail to do.- A Breviary of Sin

The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, we do not collectively fail, but everyone says something true about the nature of things, and while individually we contribute little or nothing of the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed. Therefore, since the truth seems to be like the proverbial door, which no one can fail to hit, in this respect it must be easy, but the fact that we can have a whole truth and not the particular part we aim at shows the difficulty of it.--- Aristotle

Abraham Lincoln once wrote to a friend, “please excuse me for writing such a long paper; I didn’t have time to write a short one.”