We do not learn from experience; we learn from reflecting on experience.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

Philosophy is nothing other than the pursuit of nobility and goodness.

-- Gaius Musonius Rufus

Educate the children and it will not be necessary to punish the men.

-- Pythagoras

Friends are companions on a journey who ought to help each other persevere on the road to a happier life.

-- Pythagoras

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies.

-- Hypatia

To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.

-- Hypatia

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

-- Confucius