חכמת חיים (1)

בחודש הראשון לעבודתי, ליקטתי אימרות איכותיות (ראו להלן), סידרתי אותן, הדפסתי, עשיתי להן למינציה... ותליתי באסטתיות על תקרת רכב השאטל, ליד מפת הקמפוס (שגם אותה הדבקתי בתקרת הרכב, לטובת ונוחיות הנוסעים).
מעטים שבין הנוסעים שמו לב לאוסף המשפטים והעירו (לטובה).
לצערי, "התערוכה" לא החזיקה מעמד זמן רב; היא לא מצאה חן בעיניי הבוס, והוא דרש להסירה :(
המשפטים נבחרו בקפידה. הרעיונות קרובים לליבי; הם שזורים באורח חיי, באמונותיי, בניסיונות-חיי, ביסוריי ובאהבותיי. ברוך ה' :)

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.  ~Chinese Proverb

Experience is not what happens to a man.  It is what a man does with what happens to him.  ~Aldous Leonard Huxley, Texts and Pretexts, 1932

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.  ~Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.  ~Chinese Proverb

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.  ~Albert Einstein

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry.  Most people do.  ~Norman Juster

Light travels faster than sound.  That's why most people seem bright until you hear them speak.  ~Author Unknown

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.  ~Clay P. Bedford

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught ~Oscar Wilde

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn ~Albert Einstein

Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ~Mark Twain

The truly educated never graduate ~Anonymous

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something ~Anonymous

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.  We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them.  It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it.  Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.  ~Stacia Tauscher

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.  It is the source of all true art and science.  He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.  ~Albert Einstein

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Grown-ups love figures.  When you tell them that you have made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about essential matters.  They never say to you, "What does his voice sound like?  What games does he love best?  Does he collect butterflies?" Instead, they demand:  "How old is he?  How many brothers has he?  How much does he weigh?  How much money does his father make?"  Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.  ~Jean de la Bruyere

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?  Four.  Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.  ~Abraham Lincoln

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

מתי, לאחרונה, עשית משהו בפעם הראשונה?

"I know you believe you understand what you think I said. But I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant"