Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

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

-- Confucius

Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

-- Blaise Pascal

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

-- Hannah Arendt

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

-- William James

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

-- Bertrand Russell

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

-- Carlitos Rogers