Believe Quote by John Sterling

Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those…

— Samuel Johnson

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning…

— Thomas Jefferson

'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which…

— David Hume

Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares…

— Confucius

A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope…

— Nicholas Murray Butler

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education…

— Samuel Johnson

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

— Walter Bagehot

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Man is a willful and covetous animal, who makes use of his intellect to satisfy his inclinations, but who cares nothing for truth, who…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

— Michel de Montaigne

“If someone teaches only what his superior Man predetermines and orders him to teach, without himself being absolutely convinced of the Meaningfulness and Usefulness…

— Sino Melo