That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.

There is truth in wine and children

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.