Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."

~ Plutarch  

"One's first step in wisdom is to question everything --
and one's last is to come to terms with everything."

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg  

"The elegance of honesty needs no adornment."

~ Merry Browne  

"Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man
tries to communicate always sounds foolish."

~ Herman Hesse  

"It is not white hair that engenders wisdom."

~ Menander  

"There is no wisdom without knowledge."

~ Tom Braun  

"To educate a man in mind, and not in morals,
is to educate a menace to society."

~ Theodore Roosevelt  

"Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth.
For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears.
Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built."

~ Lord Herbert Louis Samuel  

"It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone
to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."

~ William Kingdon Clifford  

"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."

~ John Ruskin  

"If we are to reach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children."

~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi  

"We developed at the local school district level probably the best public school system in the world. Or it was until the Federal government added Federal interference to Federal financial aid and eroded educational quality in the process."

~ Ronald Reagan  

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure
and the intelligent are full of doubt."

~ Bertrand Russell  

"What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves."

~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton  

"The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.
The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education.
To this the American people have committed."

~ Robert M. Hutchins