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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."
"Bring light to the ignorant, but more light to the educated, for the vanity of education makes modern humans more ignorant than the ignorant."
"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."
"Without mathematics, your world becomes foggy! For a clear vision, you need to be educated in the Temple of Mathematics!"
"A primitive education can only create primitive generations! An outdated mentality will produce merely an outdated minds! The door of the future is closed for such archaic residuals from the pre-modern time of social evolution!"
"I want to drink the knowledge of Pythagorus's theorem."
Explore more quotes by Henry David Thoreau
"I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things."
"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."
"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
"A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor."
"Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that musty old cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post office, and at the sociable, and at the fireside every night; we live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another."
"There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance."
"The silence rings-it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible-I hear the unspeakable."
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