Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.

John Hope Franklin

This story is slightly immoral, but so, I guess, are stories based on truth

Ring Lardner

Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, 'Hey, come see my play,' he'd say, 'Sure.' He'd see one, 'Oh, good play' - you know, very typical dad reaction.

Eric McCormack

Democracy, finally, rests on a higher power than Parliament. It rests on an informed and cultivated and alert public opinion. The Members of Parliament are only representatives of the citizens. They cannot represent apathy and indifference. They can play the part allotted to them only if they represent intelligence and public spiritness.http://www.nalis.gov.tt/Independence/IndepSpeech.htm

Dr. Eric Eustace Williams, Speec

I asked my doctors if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.

Walter Cronkite

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

Henry Louis Gates

Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce

Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.

Henry David Thoreau

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Galileo Galilei

A good garden may have some weeds.

Thomas Fuller

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Angela Carter

Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.

Friedrich Nietzsche