"We will be better and braver if..." - Quote by Plato

“A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.”

“Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.”

“These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.”

“Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.”

“Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.”

“Let the questions be the curriculum.”

“The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.”

“Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.”

“Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We must have life-building, man-making, character-makin g, assimilation of ideas. If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life and character, you have more education than any man who has got by heart a whole library.”