Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

We do not learn from experience; we learn from reflecting on experience.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

Philosophy is nothing other than the pursuit of nobility and goodness.

-- Gaius Musonius Rufus

Educate the children and it will not be necessary to punish the men.

-- Pythagoras

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies.

-- Hypatia

To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.

-- Hypatia

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

-- Confucius

Blue dye is extracted from the indigo plant, yet it is bluer than indigo itself.

-- Xunzi