Lifelong Learning Part II

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
Thomas Jefferson

"In the course of [our] lives…truth eludes us if we do not concentrate with total attention on its pursuit."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."
Samuel Adams

"The aim of higher education is wisdom. Wisdom is knowledge of principles and causes."
Robert Hutchins

“I know that often I longed for someone with whom I could talk of books, writers, and things of the mind…”
Louis L'Amour

"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."
Samuel Adams

"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."
Thomas Paine

"Education is the movement from darkness to light"
Allan Bloom

“Whoever passes by what is over his head condemns his head to its present low altitude.”
Mortimer J. Adler

"The hour's discussion must not go off in all directions like a leaky hose. It must have a pattern..."
Jacques Barzun

"When we value correct principles, we have truth-a knowledge of things as they are."
Stephen R. Covey

"For all find what they truly seek." The Last Battle
CS Lewis

"The key is to have lots of discussions, both planned and spontaneous, about [your] readings."
Oliver Van DeMille

"Certainly so long as the so-called education directors of our leading networks continue to operate on their present false principles, we can expect nothing."
Mortimer J. Adler

"There can be no national greatness which does not rest upon the personal integrity of the people."
Calvin Coolidge

“As I talked to some of these enthusiastic new Congressmen, it soon became apparent that their zeal was sincere and that any mistakes they might be making were the results of ignorance, not malicious intent.”
Cleon Skousen

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance given to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt."
Cicero

“Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge.”
Isaiah

"Few love to hear the sins they love to act." Pericles
William Shakespeare

“The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the improvement of character.”
Will Durant

“…the only thing worth teaching anybody is a principle.”
Jacques Barzun

"...since your present unhappy situation is not owing to the force of circumstances, but to your own errors, you have reason to hope that by banishing or correcting the latter you can produce a great change for the better in the former."
Francis Bacon

"Always, my reading was to understand."
Louis L'Amour

Seven Sins, "Wealth without Work, Pleasure without Conscience, Science without Humanity, Knowledge without Character, Politics without Principle, Commerce without Morality and Worship without Sacrifice."
Mahatma Gandhi

"No matter how much [the student] knows or how fully he has thought, he is relentlessly pushed [in discussion] until his back touches the wall of the great absolutes."
Jacques Barzun

"...the serious study of history has been declining for half a century and more [1991]...those who understand the past can prepare prudently for a tolerable future"
Russell Kirk

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi

"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood."
James Madison

"Truth seldom is sweet; it is almost invariably bitter."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That’s absolute nonsense. In one year…I read twenty-five books while waiting for people.”
Louis L'Amour