Quotes to Feel Confident · Page 4
Empowering words to remind you of your worth and unlimited potential.
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“Education with inert ideas is not only useless: it is, above all things, harmful.”
“The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.”
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.”
“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
“Don't be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise.”
“Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown propos'd as things forgot.”
“Anytus and Melitus may kill me indeed, but hurt me they cannot.”
“Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.”
“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”
“Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.”
“It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.”
“We learn our lessons, not for life, but for the lecture room.”