719 – “Life ought to be a struggle of desire towards adventures whose nobility will fertilise the soul and lead to the conception of new, glorious things.”

–Rebecca West

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693 – “The attitude that you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from, more than what you tell them. They don’t remember what you try try to teach them. They remember what you are.”

–Jim Henson [Attributed]

675 – “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

–English Proverb

640 – “Once you stop learning, you start dying.”

–anonymous

608 – “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”

–Charles W Eliot

603 – “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”

–Isaac Asimov

579 – “Science, like the Mississippi, begins in a tiny rivulet in the distant forest. Gradually other streams swell its volume. And the roaring river that bursts the dikes is formed from countless sources.”

–Abraham Flexner