An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Thomas Jefferson

If a thousand were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Henry David Thoreau

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Henry Christopher Bailey

With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

Percy Wynham Lewis

I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.

John Green

When I have to choose between two evils, I always try to pick the one I haven't tried before.

Mae West

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Harry S. Truman

That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him

Samuel Johnson

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Mahatma Gandhi

Your seed is your initial intent and it flourishes when your actions reflect that intent.

Steve Maraboli

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Today wouldn't have happened if histories weren't falsified.

Toba Beta