"The first step in learning is the..." - Quote by Plato

“We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?”

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.”

“Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?”

“Never memorize what you can look up in a book.”

“Stop learning. Start knowing”

“To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.”

“Observe all men, thyself most.”

“In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.”

“Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.”