Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 – 1902)

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
- Frank Leahy

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
- Willa Cather (1873 – 1947)

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 – 1944)

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.
- Stephen Vizinczey