“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
Plutarch
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
Henry David Thoreau
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
Rudyard Kipling
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
William Shakespeare
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
Frederick Douglass
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
Plato
“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.”
James Fenimore Cooper
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self."
