Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.
John LubbockIt is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.
John LubbockThere can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.
John LubbockThe important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should have the opportunity of teaching itself. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew.
John Lubbock