"I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate."

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"That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Education, Truth, Courage, Learning

"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."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Education, School, Creativity, Irony, Discipline

"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

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"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"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 An outdated mentality will produce merely an outdated minds!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!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Education, Future, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational

"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

Education, Knowledge, Learning, Curiosity, Awareness

"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?"

Stephen King, American Author

Education, Truth, Wisdom, Happiness, Regret

"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."

Stephen King, American Author

Education, Reading, Writing, Expectation, Truth

"If you're teaching, say, physics, there's no point in persuading a student that you're right. You want to encourage them to find out what the truth is, which is probably that you're wrong."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Education, Teaching, Physics, Truth, Wrong

"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."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Education, Individual, Community, Training

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"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive."

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"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well."

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"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

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"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."

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"The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class."

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"San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories."

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"One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself."

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"That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child."

"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."

"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!"

"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

"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."

"If you're teaching, say, physics, there's no point in persuading a student that you're right. You want to encourage them to find out what the truth is, which is probably that you're wrong."

"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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"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive."

"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well."

"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

"If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash."

"Affluence means influence."

"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."

"The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class."

"San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories."

"One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself."