“ Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. ”
Source: Jane Eyre
Similar Quotes
Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned" 
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special. 
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. 
It seems better to me for a child to have these skills and never use them, than not have them and one day need them 