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- There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.
- John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
- So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters... - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, act 1 scene 5
- Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
- John Tillotson (1630 - 1694)
- Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.
- The Talmud
- Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
- Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
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