“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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

"What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. That goes for you, for me, for everyone."
Shinichi Suzuki

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

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

"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

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

"In the course of [our] lives…truth eludes us if we do not concentrate with total attention on its pursuit."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"...since your present unhappy situation is not owing to the force of circumstances, but to your own errors, you have reason to hope that by banishing or correcting the latter you can produce a great change for the better in the former."
Francis Bacon

"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

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

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

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

"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

"Dread remorse when you are tempted to err: remorse is the poison of life"
Jane Eyre