“The system -- the American one, at least -- is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet.”
Phyllis McGinley
“Intellectuals, which go after crowd, has never been intellectuals. The intellectuals should either lead the crowd after themselves, or completely isolate themselves from the crowd.”
Ilkin Santak
“Superior race is a spiritual nobility, not a color of skin.”
“It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.”
Mencius
“Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.”
Edmund Burke
“The cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research”
Albert Einstein