A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
— Anatole France
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
