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"The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads."
Books
"Silence is the wit of fools."
Fool
"History books that contain no lies are extremely dull."
History
"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving."
Love
"One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me."
Man
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
Equality
"Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal."
Man
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool."
Fool
"Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin."
Love
"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."
Ignorance
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"Real education is never acquisition of knowledge but training of character."
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"A nation that does not provide a proper education for women is destroying their nation."
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"Real education leads to the liberation of the mind."
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"There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other."
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"After all, what is education, if not the unparalleled means to transcend the self- imposed physical limits of the mind and the body."
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"Experience is a sacred education."
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"It was the end of the October term of my sophomore year, and everything was petty normal, except for Social Studies, which was no big surprise. Mr. Dimas, who taught the class, had a reputation for unconventional teaching methods. For midterms he had blindfolded us, then had us each stick a pin in a map of the world and we got to write essays on wherever the pin stuck. I got Decatur, Illinois. Some of the guys complained because they drew places like Ulan Bator or Zimbabwe. They were lucky. YOU try writing ten thousand words on Decatur, Illinois."
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"Getting an early education and then continuing it throughout life is a brilliant way to achieve success and live a purposeful life."
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"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive."
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"My expectations from the university were perhaps too idealistic. I had dreams of learning things about innovation and discovery in the field of technology, but all of it hit the ground hard, when I faced with the pathetic reality of the so-called higher education system. To my surprise, I found myself stuck behind the walls of meaningless facts, figures and rankings. It occurred to me that, it was not actually a place for education, rather it was a place where you go to get your head filled with useless undigested information, that you'd probably never use throughout your entire life. It was not education, and moreover, it was definitely not science."
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