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"When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing."
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"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."

"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned."

"The most important thing about the quest for knowledge is that it should never end."

"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."

"The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It's proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible. This cannot be done by gathering or "accessing" what we now call "information" - which is to say facts without context and therefore without priority. A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first."

"This sort of information gathering is precisely what we call play. And the important function of play is thus revealed: it permits us to gain, without any particular future application in mind, a holistic understanding of the world, which is both a complement of and a preparation for later analytical activities."

"The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion."

"After you acquire knowledge and skill, aim to be a practitioner. Time for practice on the job or in life will still test your authenticity. Knowledge is one of the greatest sources of confidence, and you will need that confidence to do your work and demonstrate you know what you have been trained for."
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"To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man."

"When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there now instead of then."

"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong."

"We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people."
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