A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.