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"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
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"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."
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"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."
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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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"Knowledge is curiosity to know more."
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"Education is the cheap defense of nations."
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"Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception - it means breaking the barriers of the rugged sociological system that impede in the progress of human civilization - it means trying out new things for the first time in human history and succeeding in a few while failing in some. And that is how a species grows to become more advanced."
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"The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is 'doing' his 'English prep' and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all."
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"There is nothing else in the pursuit of knowledge. And more importantly, there is nothing else in education. All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems."
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"A book is a whole world that you can fit into your pocket."
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"The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge."
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"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong."
Philosophy
"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before."
Love
"There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration."
Philosophy
"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."
Wisdom
"The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason."
Philosophy
"As we are always preparing to be happy it is inevitable that we should never be so."
Happiness
"If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot set him to do nothing."
Life
"I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."
Behavior
"The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it."
Spiritual
"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary."
Philosophy
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