Quotes

“Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.” Democritus

“Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.” Democritus

“It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.” Democritus

“Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.” Democritus

“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.” Democritus

“Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.” Democritus

“The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.” Democritus

“By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.” Democritus

“Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.” Democritus

“Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.” Democritus

“If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.” Democritus

“It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.” Democritus

“Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.” Democritus

“Men should strive to think much and know little.” Democritus

“It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.” Democritus

“I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.” Democritus

“Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.” Democritus

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” John Dewey

“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.” John Dewey

“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.” John Dewey

“The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.” John Dewey

“Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.” John Dewey

“To me faith means not worrying.” John Dewey

“The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.” John Dewey

“We only think when we are confronted with problems.” John Dewey

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.” John Dewey

“The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.” John Dewey

“Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.” John Dewey

“The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.” John Dewey

“Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.” John Dewey