Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be. -- Bertrand Russell 

 The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy. -- Tolstoy 

The only true education is growing up into a worthwhile world.  -- ? 

We loved the earth but could not stay.  -- Loren Eiseley's tombstone 

Children have more need of models than of critics. -- Joubert 

The result of the educative process is the capacity for further education.  -- John Dewey 

We can have facts without thinking, but we cannot have thinking without facts. -- John Dewey 

Although the logos is common to all, the many live as though they had a private understanding.  -- Herakleitos (frag 2) 

Hero worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.   -- Herbert Spencer 

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything for their victory but new masters. -- George Saville 

There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless, purposeless life.  -- R. Browning 

An honest God's the noblest work of man.   -- Samuel Butler 

The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.  -- H. Walpole 

Death is a name for beauty not in use.  -- I. Layton 

There is no sin except stupidity.   -- O. Wilde 

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.   -- Neitzsche 

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.    -- V. Woolf 

He who learns must suffer and even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of god.  -- Aeschylus 

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.   -- E. Roosevelt 

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment – the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. --  Jorge Luis Borges 

Much learning does not teach a man to have intelligence.  -- Herakleitos  

A man with his belly full of the classics is an enemy of the human race.     --  Henry Miller 

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.   -- Neitzsche 

Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.   -- Thomas Jefferson 

The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.   -- Anatole France 

I am waiting for the world to be made safe for anarchy.  -- L. Ferlinghetti 

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.  -- G. M. Trevelyan 

What you do speaks so loud that I can't hear what you say.  -- R. W. Emerson 

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by robbing a bank clerk.      -- B. Brecht 

A man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for.  -- R. Browning 

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.  -- Thoreau 

Do you not know that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?  -- Rousseau 

Hero worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.  -- H. Spencer 

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.  -- Henry Miller 

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.  -- E. Burke 

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge one for yourself.  -- Froude 

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.  -- Virginia Woolf 

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.    -- Omar Bradley 

The true university of these days is a collection of books.   -- T. Carlyle 

What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.  -- Oscar Wilde 

If you can't bring about the best, at least keep the worst from happening.  -- T. More 

No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good. -- Bishop Mandell Creighton 

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. -- Thomas Jefferson 

Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love.  And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which, by exposing the goodness inside the bad man, and the evil in the good--invariably establish a vulgar and perverse egalitarianism, as if the arrangement of what is outside and what inside makes no moral difference.  -- Willard Gaylin 

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.  They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.  -- W. Whitman 

A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.  -- Alejo Carpentier The Lost Steps 

'Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.' -- G.M. Trevelyan 

'I loathe people who keep dogs. They haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.' -- Strindberg in A Madman's Diary 

 'Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.' -- Groucho Marx 

'Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.' -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

'I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.'  -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth 

'If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.' --Dr. Samuel Johnson 

'What is a man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set,  
ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine.'  --Isak Dinesen 

'I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education'  --Wilson Mizner 

'Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.'  --Susan Ertz