"Every head should be cultivated...." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.”

“One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.”

“Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack.”

“Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.”

“We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention.”

“Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.”

“There is the mind itself. It is like a smooth lake which when struck, say by a stone, vibrates. The vibrations gather together and react on the stone, and all through the lake they will spread and be felt. The mind is like the lake; it is constantly being set in vibrations, which leave an impression on the mind; and the idea of the Ego, or personal self, the "I", is the result of these impressions. This "I" therefore is only the very rapid transmission of force and is in itself no reality.”

“If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection”

“My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.”