Wu Ting-Fang: Education

“Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled,” (Wu Ting-Fang: The Quotations Page).

Friedrich Nietzsche: Humor

“And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh,” (Friedrich Nietzsche: Wisdom Quotes).

Ellen Glasgow: Ideas

“No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquated. . . To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality,” (Ellen Glasgow: Quoteland).

Saint Augustine: Reading

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page,” (Saint Augustine: Quote World).

Niels Henrik David Bohr: Laughter

“There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them,” (Niels Henrik David Bohr: Quote World).

Pietro Aretino: Books

“Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgment; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art,” (Pietro Aretino: Quote World).

Amos Bronson Alcott: Education

“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple,” (Amos Bronson Alcott: Quote World).

Joseph Addison: Education

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul,” (Joseph Addison: Quote World).

Robert Louis Stevenson: Travel

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move,” (Robert Louis Stevenson: Quote Garden).

Lydia M. Child: Genius

“Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame,” (Lydia M. Child: Quotations Page).