“If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
Jesus Christ

"Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."
Paul

"I have seen the fruits of adult education. It can be done."
Mortimer Adler

"No education is complete, or even particularly valuable, unless the student uses what he or she has learned to serve the family, community, society, God."
Oliver Van DeMille

“Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth…”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“…happiness…is more often found with those who are most highly cultivated in their mind and character.”
Aristotle

"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."
William Shakespeare

"Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy." Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare

"The aim of higher education is wisdom. Wisdom is knowledge of principles and causes."
Robert Hutchins

"...the laws of nature are unalterably fixed by its author, and will not bend or yield to human fancy and caprice."
George Turnbull

Seven Sins, "Wealth without Work, Pleasure without Conscience, Science without Humanity, Knowledge without Character, Politics without Principle, Commerce without Morality and Worship without Sacrifice."
Mahatma Gandhi

"Certainly so long as the so-called education directors of our leading networks continue to operate on their present false principles, we can expect nothing."
Mortimer J. Adler

"For as to our power...as it can only enlarge as our knowledge enlarges, so it is found to increase with it in such a manner that knowledge may justly be said to be power, natural knowledge, natural power, and moral knowledge, moral power."
George Turnbull

“The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the improvement of character.”
Will Durant

“The ancient scholars studied for their own improvement. Modern scholars study to impress others.”
Confucius

"...the rational part of the soul will be the agent which puts in order the irrational part, and passion and appetite...will be regulated...there will properly result...sobriety, courage, gentleness, self-control, fortitude, and the like."
Nicomachus

"There's a divinity that shapes our ends." Hamlet
William Shakespeare

“…the man who acts from principle, who pursues the paths of truth, moderation, and justice, will regain his influence.”
George Washington

"When we value correct principles, we have truth-a knowledge of things as they are."
Stephen R. Covey

"No matter how much [the student] knows or how fully he has thought, he is relentlessly pushed [in discussion] until his back touches the wall of the great absolutes."
Jacques Barzun