Education Quote by Sam Harris

“I find that the hardest work in the world—it may in fact be impossible—is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is…

— Marilynne Robinson

The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

— Chogyam Trungpa

“Westereners often think that the East is one vast Buddhist temple, which is rather like thinking the West is one vast Carthusian monastery. If…

— Daniel Quinn

“Eastern races have but small appreciation of punctuality.”

— Ambrose B. Rathborne

“There is of course a deep spiritual need which the pilgrimage seems to satisfy, particularly for those hardy enough to tackle the journey on…

— Edwin Mullins

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor, to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for,…

— Charles Baudouin

“Historically, people move west more than east. People go east only when invited. When opportunity knocks. People go west when all bets are off:…

— Karen Hines

“Too often, it seems to me, in missionary and educational work among underdeveloped races, people yield to the temptation of doing that which was…

— Booker T. Washington

Meanwhile, followers of Eastern religions are sitting in the middle of their minds, experiencing a bliss and a level of consciousness that Western man…

— George Carlin

The West can teach the East how to get a living, but the East must eventually be asked to show the West how to…

— Tehyi Hsieh

I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.

— Marilynne Robinson

“The East prays to Heaven. The West makes things happen.”

— Mouloud Benzadi