The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905
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Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
—Xunzi, 250 BCPut national causes first and personal grudges last.
—Sima Qian, c. 91 BCJournalists belong in the gutter, because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
—Gerald Priestland, 1988Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1932Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631People living deeply have no fear of death.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
—John Locke, 1695The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
—Abraham Cowley, 1656Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837