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- The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
- Johnson
- If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you; and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds.
- Koran, (c. 651 AD)
- Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
- Arthur Shopenhauer
- Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
- Mohammed Neguib
- It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Not to be cheered by praise,
Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers Are the characteristics of an excellent man. - Saskya Pandita
- The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
- Daniel Boorstin
- In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
- Alvin Toffler
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