Textbooks Quotes

160 Textbooks quotes by 142 unique authors

Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups intelligent - independence,… — James Surowiecki
I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not… — Thomas A. Edison
History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man. — Henry Ford
I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all… — Robert Huber
Peter Montiel has long set the highest standard for lucid textbooks on the macroeconomics of developing countries. Now in this new edition of his superb… — William Easterly
A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian… — David M. Raup
If you’re going to be an entrepreneur… it’s not all textbook. It’s gut feeling, it’s intuition, it’s a feeling you have that you can do… — Wayne Huizenga
Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, without regard… — James W. Loewen
By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks. — Joshua Lederberg
I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook. — Joshua Lederberg
I found myself doing extraordinary things that arent in the textbooks. Then the IMF asked the U.S. to please print money. The whole world is… — Gideon Gono
The word detox does not appear in the main textbook on cancer or the main medical textbook...the word in medicine refers to heroin addicts and… — Ralph W. Moss
Seize every opportunity you have to learn. Keep your eyes and ears wide open and seize life — don't let the moments slip through your… — Richie Sambora
We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've become… — Fisher Ames
Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them. — James W. Loewen
Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm… — Robert Ballard
Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country [Afghanistan] is dominated by drug economy and a mafia;… — Ashraf Ghani
To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that… — Janusz Korczak
I have served many long and lonely years aboard ship in war zones, and the only thing that kept me sane during all that enforced… — Don Pendleton
Beauty’s all around me right here. It’s not in a textbook. It’s not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight … The colors flow… — Tim Tharp
The Bible was America's basic textbook in all fields. — Noah Webster
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's… — Herman Melville
For Christmas, 1939, a girl friend gave me a book token which I used to buy Linus Pauling's recently published Nature of the Chemical Bond.… — Max Perutz
When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat… — Malcolm X
Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook — Richie Sambora

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