Joseph Addison on education

To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948

• Life & Death

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

Aristotle384–322 BC

• Ideas

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

Confucius551–479 BC

• Thinking