“Ancora imparo.”

“Yet I am learning.”

–Michelangelo [Misattribution, see link below]

“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend out egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.”

–Bill Bullard

“Educating yourself does not mean that you were stupid in the first place; it means that you are intelligent enough to know that there is plenty left to learn.”

–Melanie Joy

“Study both sides of everything, no matter how personally uncomfortable. If someone tells you not to study the other side of your beliefs, that is a huge red flag that means you should do exactly that.”

–anonymous

“Teaching is a calling, too. And I’ve always thought that teachers in their way are holy angels leading their flocks out of darkness.”

-Jeannette Walls

“I grew up in an environment where I thought Muslims and Arabs were the ones who kill, but through education I discovered this wasn’t the truth – and then I was able to forgive. You can’t forgive if you don’t know the truth, which is why education is so important… If young folks know the truth, change will come.”

– Emmanuel Jal

“Don’t be in such a hurry to condemn a person because he doesn’t do what you do, or think as you think. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.”

– Malcolm X [attributed]