Quote by Plutarch
For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

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"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."

- Plutarch

Belief

"What we change inwardly will change outer reality."

- Plutarch

Transformation

"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."

- Plutarch

Creativity

"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."

- Plutarch

Learning

"A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service."

- Plutarch

Responsibility

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"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

- Leonardo DaVinci

Inspiration

"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."

- Socrates

Inspiration

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air."

- Wilbur Wright

Inspiration

"Sometimes, flying feels too God-like to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see."

- Charles A. Lindbergh

Inspiration

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Inspiration