The most important part of education - to teach the meaning of to know (in the scientific sense).

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity. [p.277]

Although people seem to be unaware of it today, the development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.

Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death. [p.277]

First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge.

Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.

Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.