Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. --Albert Einstein

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. -- Jawaharial Nehru

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. --Thomas Paine

Advice is like snow--the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. --John F. Kennedy

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.--Plutarch

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. --John Henry Newman

He who opens a school door , closes a prison.--Victor Hugo

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think --rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. --Bill Beattie

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young. --Bertrand Russell

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm. --Samuel Johnson