"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar | Education | 10 bookmarks

"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

Wilde, Oscar | Dreams | 14 bookmarks

"How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | Youth | 8 bookmarks

"The history of the world is but the biography of great men."

Carlyle, Thomas | History and Historians | 3 bookmarks

"God cannot alter the past, but historians can."

Butler, Samuel | History and Historians | 2 bookmarks

"From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us."

Bonaparte, Napoleon | History and Historians | 1 bookmarks

"The main thing is to make history, not to write it."

Bismarck, Otto Von | History and Historians | 3 bookmarks

"There are charms made only for distance admiration."

Johnson, Samuel | Charm | 2 bookmarks

"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different."

Huxley, Aldous | Charm | 2 bookmarks

"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."

Camus, Albert | Charm | 7 bookmarks