"The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational." (A. N. Wilson)
"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." (G. M. Trevelyan)
"Some people study all their life, and at their death have learned everything but to think." (Demergu Dewar)
"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it." (Rabindranath Tagore)
"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas." (George Santayana)
"An educated mind is useless without a focused will, and dangerous without a loving heart." (Winfried Deijmann)
"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it." (Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost." (Khalil Gibran)
"Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck." (Frank Herbert)
"One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret." (Barry Lopez)
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