“Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.”

“When one merely states that one has many subscribers and keeps on saying it, then one gets many; just as when one sheep goes to water, the next one also goes, and when it is continually said of a large flock of sheep that they go hither and yon to water, then the rest must also go, so people believe that it must be the demand of the times, that for the sake of use and custom – they must also subscribe.”

“A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.”

“Neither the black boy nor the white will ever be educated in the best and broadest sense of the term who seeks an education merely to reach an office, for, as in nature a stream never rises higher than its source, so in life men never rise higher than their ideals. The education that merely seeks an office must of necessity be limited to the dimensions of that office.”

“Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow.

-Lady Whistledown”

“Young men are pretty much like a drove of sheep; any one who takes a decided line on certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest.”

“Moral education is not mere drill in the ways of the herd. The good man's first duty, as Professor Erskine says, is to be intelligent. Good intentions alone do not enable man to judge wisely or behave well. The prevailing idea that one can be at the same time good and stupid has strongly influenced our education.”

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

“You must know yourself first instead of following blindly like sheep.”

“In imaginative thought there is no real knowledge of anything but similarities (ultimately identities): knowledge of differences is merely a transition to a new knowledge of similarities.”