“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
2020s, 2021 <br class="br">Source: Cited in Pope Francis: Art creates brotherhood and friendship https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2021-12/pope-francis-art-creates-brotherhood-and-friendship.html in the Vatican News. (15 December 2021)
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Michelle Obama (1964) lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States
2010s, Farewell Speech (2017)
Context: I want our young people to know that they matter, that they belong. So don't be afraid—you hear me, young people? Don't be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered. Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise. Lead by example with hope, never fear. And know that I will be with you, rooting for you and working to support you for the rest of my life.
“I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Source: How They Met, and Other Stories
José Saramago book The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Source: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1993), p. 108
“Hope is a most beautiful drug.”
Jeremy Mercer (1971) Canadian writer
Source: Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.
“Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.”
Edmund Wilson book To the Finland Station
To the Finland Station (1940) [Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1972, ISBN 1568495749/1145], Part I, Ch. 5: Michelet Between Nationalism and Socialism, p. 36
Seamus Heaney The Cure at Troy
"Doubletake", from The Cure at Troy (1990)
Poetry Quotes, The Cure at Troy
Context: History says don't hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme.
So hope for a great sea-change
on the far side of revenge.
Believe that a further shore
is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
and cures and healing wells.