The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.