"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."

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"Experience is a master teacher, even when it's not our own."

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"The greatest treasures are books."

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"I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good t."

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"I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing."

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"Always we learn things and then we forget them."

Dave Eggers, American Writer

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"Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"If you fail at something, it means you have not mastered the art. With persistence practice, you will be master and eventually succeed."

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"Humanity had to expand the limits of its consciousness to learn to ask the right questions."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimensions. This, somehow, seemed to render all matters of intellect shallow and worthless."

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"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."

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"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."

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"If men are so wicked with religion what would they be without it?"

Religion

"O vitae Philosophia dux! O virtutum indagatrix expultrixque vitiorum! Unus dies, bene et ex praeceptis tuis actus, peccanti immortalitati est anteponendus.translation (non-literal):O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher of virtues and expeller of vices! Just a single day lived well and according to your lessons is to be preferred to an eternity of errors.- Cicero, As quoted in Ben Franklin's Autobiography."

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"All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones."

Peace

"I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude, or they would not venture to own their heresy; and they cannot afford to be deficient in any of the other virtues, as they would give advantage to their many enemies; and they have not, like orthodox sinners, such a number of friends to excuse or justify them."

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"Experience is a master teacher, even when it's not our own."

"People easily become familiar with what you teach them practically than what you tell them verbally. Action fixes images in their minds and they can carry those images for a long period."

"The greatest treasures are books."

"I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good t."

"I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing."

"Always we learn things and then we forget them."

"Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows."

"If you fail at something, it means you have not mastered the art. With persistence practice, you will be master and eventually succeed."

"Humanity had to expand the limits of its consciousness to learn to ask the right questions."

"One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimensions. This, somehow, seemed to render all matters of intellect shallow and worthless."

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"Well done is better than well said."

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