The argument has it that schools are not merely teaching places, but also institutions in which character is built.

In deciding on your future career, it is no use concentrating on those areas in which you have achieved your best scores, unless you are interested in them.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Revolution and its leaders, in which Russia is a farm, the revolutionary leaders are pigs, and other animals are various members of Russian society at that time.

So imprudent are we that we waste our lives thinking about the future, a time in which we are powerless, rather than focusing on the present, the time in which we have control.

For much of modern civilization, people have sought to place different kinds of arts into an artificial hierarchy in which some forms of the arts are considered “better” than others.

Pythagoreans delighted in the certainty of mathematical demonstration, the sense of a pure and unsullied world accessible to the human intellect, a world in which the sides of right triangles perfectly obey simple mathematical relationships.

The idea of competition has had a powerful influence on the way we think about our society and on the ways in which we conduct our own personal and business lives.

While most fruits and vegetables have dramatically different nutritional value depending on the form in which we eat them, the tomato retains its health benefits in any form.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant, and interesting.

The conception of the function of education is dependent on the nature of the society in which it plays its role and is determined by the philosophy which governs relations between the individual and the community.

There is, however, one field in which computers will always perform infinitely better than us: the field of memory and recollection.

Unless an actor speaks and moves in the manner in which the imaginary character whose part he or she is playing would do, the story will not be clearly communicated to the audience.