Our whole life is but one great school; from the cradle to the grave we are all learners; nor will our education be finished until we die.
—Ann Plato, 1841
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Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.
—Dragging Canoe, 1775I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren’t people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.
—Jack Kerouac, 1957Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.
—Che Guevara, 1965Friendship is a plant that loves the sun—thrives ill under clouds.
—Bronson Alcott, 1872People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.
—Bayard Rustin, 1986Profit is profit even in Mecca.
—Nigerian proverbIn meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.
—George Mikes, 1946A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922Had Cleopatra’s nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have changed.
—Blaise Pascal, 1658The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
—Herodotus, c. 440 BC