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- Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
- David Reisman
- Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
- Charles A. Dana (1819 - 1897)
- What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
- Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College
- If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.
- Karl von Bonstetten
- If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door.
- Thomas Secker
- I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), quoted by Plato, 'The Death of Socrates'
- Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
- Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Be not slow to visit the sick.
- Ecclesiastes
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