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- To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- 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)
- The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
- No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
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