The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905
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We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
—Anna Sewell, 1877There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. One may have that condition by fits only.
—George Eliot, c. 1872There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
—Kathleen Norris, 1931Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
—Thomas Malory, c. 1470I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCIn the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.
—David Foster Wallace, 2000He who is afraid of his own memories is cowardly, really cowardly.
—Elias Canetti, 1954Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939