True Happiness
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. — Helen Keller
The True Aim of Education
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last […]
On Children and Obedience
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. — Anatole Broyard
Who’s a Bore?
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. — Gian Vincenzo Gravina
On Computer Errors
“To err is human” but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries. — Agatha Christie
On Political Dissent
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. — Voltaire
On Limitless Stupidity
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. — Albert Einstein