Plato

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
- Plato

C. S. Lewis

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
- C. S. Lewis

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Coincidences are spiritual puns.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Socrates

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!"
- Socrates

Edmund Burke

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- Edmund Burke