"Oxford in the Inklings' day was not so different in look and smell from the Oxford of today. Then, as now, one was tempted to fantasize one's surroundings as a Camelot of intellectual knight-errantry or an Eden of serene contemplation. Then, as now, there was bound to be disappointment."
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"The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name."
"The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse."
"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power."
"Үйл үйлдэх, үхэж одох, эрхлэн наадах тэргүүтэндҮдшийн бүрий, үүрийн харанхуйг үл цээрлэхчлэнҮтэлж доройтсон, өчнөөн нялх алинд чҮсэг эрдэм сурахыг хичээх нь нэгэн адил хэрэгтэй"
"Your friends can be double-edged knife thy can either nurture you or destroy you. Choose them Wisely......"
"Karena kita tidak abadi, namun tulisan kita bisa abadi"
"I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady."Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction."
"Wenn [der Lehrer] wirklich weise ist, fordert er euch nicht auf, ins Haus seiner Weisheit einzutreten, sondern führt euch an die Schwelle eures eigenen Geistes."
"To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
"This is the setting out.The leaving of everything behind.Leaving the social milieu. The preconceptions.The definitions. The language. The narrowed field of vision. The expectations.No longer expecting relationships, memories, words, or letters to mean what they used to mean. To be, in a word: Open."
"Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it."
"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."
"Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
"I seek and search for the light of knowledge."
"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken."
"The tragedy is that there are many walking encyclopedias who are living failures."
"I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good."
"I believe that what we get out of life is what we've set ourselves up to get, so there's no such thing as an inconsequential decision. Our destinies are the culmination of all the choices we've made along the way, which is why it's imperative to listen hard to your inner voice when it speaks up. Don't let anyone else's noise drown it out."
"A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity."