"I hear and I forget
I see and I remember
I do and I understand."
– Anonymous

"You cannot teach a man anything.
You can only help him discover it within himself."
– Galileo

"Who teaches, learns."
– John Amos Comenius, 17th century European education theorist

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
– W.B. Yeats

"Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration."
– James Watson, a discoverer of DNA, for which he shared a Nobel Prize with Francis Crick

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

– African proverb

"Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others."
– Alexander von Humboldt, naturalist and explorer of the 18th and 19th centuries

"To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin."
– Native American proverb

"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother."
– Albert Einstein

"The best way I know to defeat an enemy is to make him (or her) a friend."
– Abraham Lincoln

"A clash in doctrines is not a disaster; it is an opportunity."
– John Cardinal Newman

"Tell me and I’ll listen. Show me and I’ll watch. Involve me and I’ll learn."
– Teton Lakota Indians

"An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue."
– Russian Proverb

"If we never fight, how can we ever get to know each other?"
– Cantonese proverb

"He (or she) that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our friend."
– Edmund Burke

"A rope of three strands is not easily parted."
– Malay proverb

"If you are reluctant to ask the way, you will be lost."
– Malay proverb

"The hand that gives, gathers."
– English proverb

"The wise do not lay up treasure. The more they give to others, the more they have for themselves."
– Lao-Tze, The Simple Way

"It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked through understanding."
– Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

"A man there was, though some did count him mad.
The more he cast away, the more he had."
– John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"What I hear, I forget. What I hear and see I remember. What I do, I understand."
– Chinese proverb

"Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality."
– Source unknown

"A joy shared is a joy doubled."
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), poet, novelist, playwright, and natural philosopher

"What a child can do with assistance today, [she] will be able to do by herself tomorrow."
– L.S. Vygotsky, 1978: 87

"Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more."
– Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: p. 263

"If two people have the same opinion, one is unnecessary. ... I don't want to talk, to communicate, with someone who agrees with me; I want to communicate with you because you see it differently. I value that difference."
– Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: p. 278

"One for all and all for one."
– Alexander Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"United we stand, divided we fall."
– Anonymous

"Two heads are better than one."
– Anonymous

"I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose."
– Anonymous, from the internet

"Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque’s studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other’s work. A canvas wasn’t finished unless both of us felt it was."
– Pablo Picasso (in a letter to Francoise Gilot)

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects."
– Confucius

"We are caught in a network of mutuality. We are tied in a single garment of destiny. What affects one directly, affects us all indirectly."
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The pursuit of truth in the company of friends."
– Motto of an unidentified college (cited in Palmer, P. J. [1998, p. 90]. The courage to teach: Exploring the inner landscape of a teacher's life. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.)

"Real learning does not happen until students are brought into relationship with the teacher, with each other, and with the subject. We cannot learn deeply and well until a community of learning is created in the classroom."
– P. J. Palmer (1993). To know as we are known: Education as a spiritual journey. San Francisco: Harper.

"Five people were invited, ten showed up. Put more water in the soup and everybody enjoy!"
– Swedish proverb

"True happiness comes only through sharing in the trials and successes of other persons and of our community. Hence it is essential that any true conception of happiness contain the promise of full commitment to the life of the society."
– Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (2nd President of Soka Gakkai, a Buddhist organization), quoted in: Bethel, D.M., Education for Creative Living (Iowa State University Press, 1991)

"Cooperative living can develop only as individual persons become able to see their own weaknesses and strengths as well as the weaknesses and strengthen of others."
– Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (2nd President of Soka Gakki, a Buddhist organization), quoted in: Bethel, D.M., Education for Creative Living (Iowa State University Press, 1991)

"To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding, in spite of distances or thoughts expressed, can make of this earth a garden."
– Goethe