An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Shot by a fool — it can't be helped.

-- Itō Hirobumi

The Three Principles of the People: nationalism, democracy, livelihood.

-- Sun Yat-sen

Some recent philosophers seem to have lent moral support to these deplorable verdicts by asserting that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism.

-- Alfred Binet

You must yourself possess what you wish to give to others; you must be intelligent to make others intelligent.

-- Alfred Binet

The intelligence of these children is capable of being developed; with exercise and, above all, with method, we manage to increase their attention, their memory, their judgment.

-- Alfred Binet