"One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil."

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

"There is no greater pillar of stability than a strong, free and educated woman."

"If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is."

"Knowledge is the food of the soul."

"Education is teaching our children to desire the right things."

"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds."

"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

"Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil."

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life."

"The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms."

"In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine."

"To believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."