The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

John Adams, letter to Abigail Adams (December 28, 1794); Adams papers, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.

He was not of an age, but for all time!

Ben Jonson,  To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare (First Folio, 1623)

There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all are perjur'd All foresworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

Nurse, Romeo and Juliet III.2

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.

Henry Ford, 1928 April, The Forum, Volume 79, Number 4, My Philosophy of Industry by Henry Ford, Interview conducted by Fay Leone Faurote, Start Page 481, Quote Page 481, The Forum Publishing Company, New York. (Verified on microfilm)

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

Thomas Moore, The Education of the Heart

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Horace Mann, as quoted in Words for Teachers to Live By (2002) by Mary Engelbreit

Wit is educated insolence.

Aristotle, Rhetoric Book II. 1389.b11

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

John Dewey, Forum 83 (March 1930), 176-82.  Quoted in The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, Education, and Democracy, Hickman and Alexander, eds., page 28.

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

Plutarch, On Listening to Lectures

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant, quoted in "Books: The Great Gadfly", Time magazine, 8 October 1965 (review of The Age of Voltaire by Will and Ariel Durant)

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

Anthony J. D’Angelo

The educated person is one who knows how to find out what he does not know.

George Simmel

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle, Metaphysics

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. . . . It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that gives value to survival.

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington in a letter to his nephew, Bushrod Washington.  Newburgh, January 15, 1783

Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Lou Holtz

Our Founders were men of the West. They received the language of the English countryside, the literature of the Latin poets, the rule of prescriptive common law, and the religion of the Cross. In their schools, in their fields, in their meeting houses, and by the hearth, they were part of the great Western tradition. In the fervor of revolution and founding, they could have abandoned that Western past; they could have severed the great links connecting their world to their heritage.

Gary Gregg, 1998