May 4

May 4 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. ~ eden ahbez
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. ~ Horace Mann (born 4 May 1796)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this. ~ T. H. Huxley (born 4 May 1825)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * The life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of those who are connected with us, do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a game which has been played for untold ages, every man and woman of us being one of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. ~ T. H. Huxley
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron. ~ Horace Mann (born May 4)
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2009
 * Beneficence is godlike, and he who does most good to his fellow-man is the Master of Masters, and has learned the Art of Arts. Enrich and embellish the universe as you will, it is only a fit temple for the heart that loves truth with a supreme love. Inanimate vastness excites wonder; knowledge kindles admiration, but love enraptures the soul. Scientific truth is marvellous, but moral truth is divine; and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light, has found the lost paradise. For him, a new heaven and a new earth have already been created. His home is the sanctuary of God, the Holy of Holies. ~ Horace Mann
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. ~ Horace Mann
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. ~ Horace Mann
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2012
 * Veracity is the heart of morality. ~ T. H. Huxley
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013
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 * 2014


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 * 2017


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 * 2019


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 * 2020


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 * 2021


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 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Great cities are not like towns, only larger. They are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of them is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers. ~ Jane Jacobs (born 4 May 1916)
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 17:16, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities. ~ Jane Jacobs (born 4 May 1916)
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 17:16, 6 December 2011 (UTC)