No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
Emma Goldman

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
Michel de Montaigne

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Michel de Montaigne

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
Michel de Montaigne

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
Michel de Montaigne

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
Michel de Montaigne

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.
Freddie Mercury

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
Herbert Hoover

What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?
Robert Fulghum

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
W. E. B. Du Bois

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
Euripides

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph Addison

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

The soul is healed by being with children.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
Neil Armstrong

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
Joseph Addison

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph Addison

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.
George Santayana

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana