Self-Discovery

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

"I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching." Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare

"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."
Frederic Bastiat

"...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

"Dread remorse when you are tempted to err: remorse is the poison of life"
Jane Eyre

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

“…to the support of the Constitution and laws, let every American pledge his life, his liberty and his sacred honor;…let it become the political religion of the nation…”
Abraham Lincoln

“If a people expect to be ignorant and free…they expect what never was and never will be.”
Thomas Jefferson

"Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance."

Will Durant

"Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge-broad, deep knowledge-is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low."
Helen Keller

"I have seen the fruits of adult education. It can be done."
Mortimer Adler

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

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
Benjamin Franklin

"...the rational part of the soul will be the agent which puts in order the irrational part, and passion and appetite...will be regulated...there will properly result...sobriety, courage, gentleness, self-control, fortitude, and the like."
Nicomachus

"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

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

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

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