“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
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
Mark Twain
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
Rudyard Kipling
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
Frederick Douglass
“Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.”
Alexandre Dumas
"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
“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”