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"Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes."
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"If you are still breathing, don not stop learning."
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"Understand the concept of time and find ways to maximize it effectively."
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"Let's stop discussing about who a wise person is and start learning to become wise persons. Begin acquiring knowledge at the very moment you discover that there is something called "knowledge"!"
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"You will learn more when you teach someone else. The secret to obtaining more knowledge is teaching more people as possible and available!"
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"Illiteracy and stupidity are not quite different statuses, they are both the outcome of our lethargy and indolence."
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"You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand enough or have enough knowledge to keep away the surprises that both fate and human beings had in store."
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"It's always better if they see. Then they don't imagine things. So I didn't imagine, I remembered."
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"You are loaded with answers, don't live your entire life asking questions."
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"You can't give what you don't have. To write, you must read. To write well, read well."
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"One of the most important gifts that you can give to yourself is the gift of self-education, that is the best way to grow on constant basis."
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"The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else and run away even before he comes near them the fly lights upon his very nose."
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"It will generally be found that, as soon as the terrors of life reach the point at which they outweigh the terrors of death, a man will put an end to his life. But the terrors of death offer considerable resistance; they stand like a sentinel at the gate leading out of this world. Perhaps there is no man alive who would not have already put an end to his life, if this end had been of a purely negative character, a sudden stoppage of existence. There is something positive about it; it is the destruction of the body; and a man shrinks from that, because his body is the manifestation of the will to live."
Mortality
"To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them."
Time
"If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it."
Life
"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents."
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"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."
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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."
Man
"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."
Life
"The word of man is the most durable of all material."
Man
"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
Man
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