Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, animated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of man -- it is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country.

Denis Diderot

If you start most of your sentences with 'Why Can't', 'Why Not', or 'What if', you'll build a stronger imagination.

Corey Aaron Burkes

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

Alistair Cooke

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Simone Weil

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

Victor Hugo

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Francis Bacon

She lifts a bowl of kheer and her thoughts, flittering like dusty sparrows in a brown back alley, turn a sudden kingfisher blue.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

What you cannot enforce, do not command.

Sophocles

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Alfred North Whitehead

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

Ben Sweetland

If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.

Terry Eagleton