All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from non-violence you turn non-violence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life.
-- Jean Goss
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
-- John Muir
You, who are the father of letters...have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant.
-- Socrates (addressing the Egyptian god Thoth)
Better to dare Mighty Things and fail, than to live in a gray twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
-- Saint Augustine
Competence is a state of controlled incompetence.
-- Ronald Epstein
What then is the education to be? ...gymnastic for the body and music for the mind.
-- Plato
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
-- William Shakespeare (King Lear)
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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