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"Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots."
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"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."
"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."
"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."
"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
"If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I'll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming 'Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?"
"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written."
"Everything has changed. . . except the way we think. The aim [of education] must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals, who, however, see in the service of community their highest life problems."
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"My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious."
"Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write."
"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust."
"Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world."
"To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all."
"He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent."
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