Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

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