Expert knowledge, however indispensable, is no substitute for a generous and comprehending outlook upon the human story with all its sadness, with all its unquenchable hope.

Winston Churchill · Churchill at the University of Copenhagen in 1950, on what education is for.

By a blessed dispensation, human beings forget physical pain much more quickly than they do their joyous emotions and experiences.

Winston Churchill · Fourth Alamein Reunion, Empress Hall, London, 21 October 1949

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 11 December 1941

Attributed to Winston Churchill · A saying Churchill's family and staff recalled; no record of the day he said it.

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Horace · The source reads: “Magnas inter opes inops. A beggar amidst great riches.”

Rachel Brosnahan · The actress on kindness.

Albert Einstein · From his address on education at Albany, 15 October 1936.

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