George Eliot

I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg…

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

Breed is stronger than pasture.

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

One of the things that make community colleges so special is they do not pick and choose their students – they work with all students.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‘R’, except at the beginning of a word.

Learn something new every day.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

Over the years, I have again and again asked fellow believers in a free society how they managed to escape the contagion of their collectivist intellectual environment. No name has been mentioned more often as the source of enlightenment than Friedrich Hayek’s.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn. Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American’s capacity. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

That’s the way to study history-by noting evolutionary processes.