"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."

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"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."

Horace, Roman Poet

Education, Knowledge, Injustice

"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!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Education, Mastery, Persistence, Learning, Growth

"The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Education, Teaching, Joy, Creation, Inspirational

"If a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Education, Clarity, Knowledge, Reading, Values

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Education, Youth

"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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Education, Learning, Truth, Error, Correction

"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."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Education, Reading, Time, Literature, Trust

"Homework doesn't end when you receive a diploma. Often, it's just the beginning of your learning."

Susan C. Young, American Author

Education, Wisdom, Truth, Power, Learning

"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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Education, Criticism, Standard, Mind

"A well educated human being does not express his or thoughts that can perplex others because he or she has mastered the knowledge to avoid mentioning ideas that are vague, irrelavent and not compelling ."

Saaif Alam, Indian Writer

Education, Observation, Truth, Wisdom

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"Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'."

Wealth, Money, Self, Values

"The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day."

Metaphor, Water, Language, Secrets, Story

"A proof once established is better left so."

Truth, Proof, Logic, Knowledge

"That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace."

Morality, Consequence, Disgrace, Behavior

"Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain."

Religion, Heaven, Merit, Man, Malice

"I can live for two months on a good compliment."

Positive, Compliment, Months

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"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."

"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!"

"The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge."

"If a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading."

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

"Homework doesn't end when you receive a diploma. Often, it's just the beginning of your learning."

"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."

"A well educated human being does not express his or thoughts that can perplex others because he or she has mastered the knowledge to avoid mentioning ideas that are vague, irrelavent and not compelling ."

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"Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'."

"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence."

"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket."

"A proof once established is better left so."

"That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace."

"Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain."

"I can live for two months on a good compliment."