"All men by nature desire to know...." - Quote by Aristotle

“If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development”

“The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.”

“Since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that it should be public, and not private - not as at present, when every one looks after his own children separately, and gives them separate instruction of the sort which he thinks best; the training in things which are of common interest should be the same for all. Neither must we suppose that any one of the citizens belongs to himself, for they all belong to the state, and are each of them a part of the state, and the care of each part is inseparable from the care of the whole.”

“In time of crisis people want to know that you care, more than they care what you know”

“Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life?”

“The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?”

“In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.”

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.”

“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.”