Joseph Joubert on thinking

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962

• Ideas

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle384–322 BC

• Education
• Ideas

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Confucius551–479 BC

• Education