Flora Lewis Inspirational Quotes (5)

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.