Today is yesterday's pupil. [ Proverb ]

Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment. [ Shenstone ]

Wit, - the pupil of the soul's clear eye. [ Sir John Davies ]

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. [ Emerson ]

He that is only his own pupil shall have a fool to his tutor. [ Proverb ]

To guard from error is not the instructor's business; but to lead the erring pupil. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The bigot is like the pupil of the eye, the more light you put upon it, the more it will contract. [ O. W. Holmes ]

Art, as far as it has ability, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master, thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. [ Dante ]

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly. Holmes disposed of a bigot at once, when he compared his mind to the pupil of the eye - the more light you let into it the more it contracts. [ Whipple ]