top of page
.png){kind=small}
"The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself."
Standard
Customized
More
"The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers."
Truth
"The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America."
Home
"The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration."
Answers
"We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part."
Living
"There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech."
Soul
"There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative."
Truth
"The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself."
Age
"Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?"
Labor
"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine."
Success
"The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is."
Trust
More
"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Age merely shows what children we remain."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The golden age is before us, not behind us."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Not even old age knows how to love death."
Author Name
Personal Development
bottom of page