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- Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
- Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
- What is not fully understood is not possessed.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.
- Johnson
- Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
- Henry Bolingbroke
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.
- Thomas Arnold
- Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
- Author Unknown
- One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb
- Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
- Sir Arthur Helps
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