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"No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart."
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"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."
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"The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!"
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"The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge."
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"And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another."
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"He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. "That's the only kind of book I can trust," he said."It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short."
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"Homework doesn't end when you receive a diploma. Often, it's just the beginning of your learning."
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"To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions."
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"The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism."
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"Discovery Determines The System Of Education."
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"They say education has no end. If you still disagree with this, here is a better way to take it in; "Education has an end that never comes"."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
People
"Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains."
Faith
"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."
God
"Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice."
Self
"We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about."
Knowledge
"The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle."
History
"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."
Talent
"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."
Habit
"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
Evil
"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."
Thought
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