The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.