Quotes
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Learning is not attained by chance.  It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know.  It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

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You must train the children to their studies in a playful manner, and without any air of constraint, with the further object of discerning more readily the natural bent of their respective characters.

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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them - the character, the heart, generous qualitites, progressive ideas.

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Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

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Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

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Einstein's Three Rules of Work:

  1. Out of clutter, find simplicity.

  2. From discord, find harmony.

  3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

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Only the educated are free.

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education.  To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun.  To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

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Educated people are as superior to uneducated people as the living are to the dead.

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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.

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The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

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He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

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A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being whose mind is not debauched will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

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Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.

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Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

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Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

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Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering a cold iron.

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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general Knowledge among the people.

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When the state intervenes to insure the indoctrination of some doctrine, it does so because there is no conclusive evidence in favor of that doctrine.

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be digested.

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Nothing in education is so astonishing as he amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

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A good education is not so much one which prepares people to succeed in the world, as one which enables them to sustain a failure.

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That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased.

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People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

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Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

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A child's wisdom is also wisdom.

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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

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