Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2015-02-25 Feb 25, 2015In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.~ Ambrose BierceDon't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.~ Ann LandersIf you look like a rabbit, and act like a rabbit, you will be treated like a rabbit -- prey for all predators.~ Stony Loft Feb 24, 2015Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.~ Henry David ThoreauBooks won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom.~ A. Whitney GriswoldThe only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men’s minds.~ Harold J. Laski Feb 23, 2015Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.~ Robert M. HutchinsWhenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.~ Thomas SowellThe capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The WILLINGNESS to learn is a choice.~ Unknown Feb 19, 2015I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.~ Mark TwainThose who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very seductive voices – taking advantage of our freedom of speech – who were trying to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you what you can and cannot do.~ Nat HentoffA university’s essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism – a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.~ Richard Hofstadter Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print