"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self."

Ernest Hemingway

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”

Frederick Douglass

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

Rudyard Kipling

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

Mark Twain

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”

James Fenimore Cooper

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

William Shakespeare

“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