“The highest purpose of education is to unlearn what we once took for granted, to replace certainty with subtlety, prejudice with compassion, and destiny with possibility.”

“The first wisdom is to heed the wise when they speak.”

“There are many ways of being clever, but only one way of being wise.”

“Many things can prolong your life, but only wisdom can save it.”

“It has been said that when an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. But when a language dies, it is a whole world that comes to an end.”