An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed.

Rather than swallowing our pride and simply asking what we do not know, we choose to fill in the blanks ourselves and later become humbled. Wisdom was often, in its youth, proven foolish, and ones humiliated were meant to become wise.

How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information.

If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

If you're not a smart worker, it's about how hard you work double the amount from the heart; if you're not a hard worker, it's about how smart you work but times two from the brain.