Education: 'Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.'

Integrity: 'Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.'

Enthusiasm: 'Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.'

Action: 'Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.'

The first intellectual operation in which I arrived at any proficiency, was dissecting a bad argument, and finding in what part the fallacy lay; and though wha…

I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions …

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading …