Travel

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation - Elizabeth Drew

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page - St. Augustine

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.  I travel for travel's sake.  The great affair is to move - Robert Louis Stevenson

When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money.  Then take half the clothes and twice the money - Susan Heller

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything - Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt

Intelligence

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man - Catherine Deneuve

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition - Gilbert K. Chesterton

Action is the real measure of intelligence - Napoleon Hill

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Always be smarter than the people who hire you - Lena Horne

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself - Albert Camus

Dreams

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible - T.E. Lawrence

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it - William Faulkner

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past - Patrick Henry

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly - Lanston Hughes

You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one - Henry D. Thoreau

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams - Eleanor Roosevelt

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined - Henry David Thoreau

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world - Harriet Tubman

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal - Pamela Vaull Starr

Teacher

"A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others." - Anonymous

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." - William Arthur Ward

"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth" - Dan Rather

"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework." - Lily Tomlin

"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." - Thomas Carruthers

"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron." - Horace Mann

"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn." - John Lubbock

Father

Honour thy father and thy mother stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness - Aeschylus

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong - Charles Wadsworth

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it - Clarence Buddinton Kelland

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters - George Herbert

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity - Jean Paul Richter

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life - Lido Anthony Iacocca

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years - Mark Twain

Doubt

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it - André Gide

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt - Henry Louis Mencken

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any, but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fanatic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are not sure that we are doubly sure - Reinhold Niebuhr

If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt; if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius - Walter Savage Landor

When in doubt wear red - Bill Blass

Preparation

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for a lifetime - Gail Kathleen Godwin

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs - Mario Andretti

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year - Thomas Dreier

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine - William Feather

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech - Mark Twain