"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

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."

Henry David Thoreau

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”

Plutarch

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

Plato

“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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Rudyard Kipling

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

James Fenimore Cooper