The mind is everything. What you think you become.
Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 53
It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
David McCullough
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By nature, man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Sophocles
Virtue is not always where it seems to be. People sometimes acknowledge favors only to maintain their reputations, and to make themselves more impudently ungrateful for favors that they do not wish to acknowledge.
Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.
I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare.
Thomas Bowdler
Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process.
If you read the biography of any great man, you will always notice two things: His mother's contribution in his progress and his teacher's contribution in his growth and development.
Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.
You cant drag people from understanding to action. A customer isnt actually at the last mile if youre the one dragging her to the finish line.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps.
Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.
Ameen Rihani
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Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.
Robert M. Hutchins
