USQ Aphorisms

The school I teach at is affiliated with the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) in Australia. One thing I like about USQ's books is that they have a number of aphorisms on the front and back covers. I thought I'd share them with you:

Front Cover:

• "He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower." - Mary Howitt
  
• "Engineering is the art or science of making practical." - S.C. Florman
  
• "The arts are the servant; wisdom its master." - Seneca
  
• "Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being." - Orison Swett Marden
  
• "To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." - Marilyn vos Savant
  
• "Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous." - Confucius
  
• "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Ellen Parr
  
• "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
  
• "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality." - Jules de Gaultier
  
• "Wear the old coat and buy the new book." - Austin Phelps
  
• "Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened." - Sir Winston Churchill
  
• "Learning is not compulsory...neither is survival." - W. Edwards Deming
  
• "There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness." - Franz Kafka
  
• "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
  
• "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastophe." - H.G. Wells
  
• "It is only the ignorant who despise education." - Publilius Syrus
  
• "Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life." - Dr. David M. Burns
  
• "The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves." - Carl Jung
  

Back Cover:

• "Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism." - William Phillips
  
• "A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  
• "Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings." - C. Archie Danielson
  
• "The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television." - Andrew Ross
  
• "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
  
• "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." - Oscar Wilde
  
• "I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge alleviates the pain of being human." - Sting
  
• "The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." - Allan K. Chamlers
  
• "Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
  
• "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antonie de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"
  
• "One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star." - G.K. Chesterton
  
• "Read not to contradict and refute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." - Francis Bacon
  
• "All of us have two educations: one which we receive from others; another, and the most valuable, which we give ourselves" - John Randolph
  
• "Knowledge comes by taking things apart. But wisdom comes by putting things together." - John A. Morrison