The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

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.

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

-- Gaius Musonius Rufus

As in all things, we suffer from excess in reading too. Many books are a burden, not an ornament.

-- Seneca

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

-- 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