“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
Rudyard Kipling
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self."
Ernest Hemingway
“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
James Fenimore Cooper
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
William Shakespeare
“The man who lies to himself cannot distinguish the truth within him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
Plato
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
Plutarch
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
Frederick Douglass
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
