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"Real education leads to the liberation of the mind."

"Experience is a sacred education."

"My expectations from the university were perhaps too idealistic. I had dreams of learning things about innovation and discovery in the field of technology, but all of it hit the ground hard, when I faced with the pathetic reality of the so-called higher education system. To my surprise, I found myself stuck behind the walls of meaningless facts, figures and rankings. It occurred to me that, it was not actually a place for education, rather it was a place where you go to get your head filled with useless undigested information, that you'd probably never use throughout your entire life. It was not education, and moreover, it was definitely not science."

"Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself."

"Learn how to learn...then start learning."
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"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."

"I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more."

"Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity."

"The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?"

"What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading."

"How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness."
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