Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

The greatest enemy is one that has nothing to lose.

Jess couldn't stop spitting out words, because they were words like blades to hurt, and if she swallowed them, she'd be scraped hollow.

Don’t give explanation to anyone because who believes you, no need and who do not will not agree.

Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.

When youre dealing with digital goods, you dont have to be tied to one URL.

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

A happy life, a life making full use of all our potential is and must be a balanced life. The obstacles to it are mainly illusory; most of our limitations are self-imposed.

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.