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month"s study of books." | |
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Proverb
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| "Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be
attended to, convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most
security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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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 know
and what you don"t." | |
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Anatole France
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| "College graduates who have kept on with self-education generally are
the ones who reap the richest harvests of material rewards, and even more
important, the great intangible satisfactions of life." | |
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Lavor K. Chaffin
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| "Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of
prejudices." | |
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Laurence J. Peter
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| "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." | |
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Will Durant
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| "Education is a social process ... education is growth ... education
is not a preparation for life; education is life itself." | |
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John Dewey
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| "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from
time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "Education is learning what you didn?t even know you didn?t
know." | |
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Elmer G. Letterman
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| "Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire." | |
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William Butler Yeats
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| "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change
the world." | |
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Nelson Mandela
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| "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by
somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." | |
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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| "Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes." | |
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Norman Douglas
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| "Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few
possess." | |
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Karl Kraus
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| "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been
forgotten." | |
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B. F. Skinner
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| "Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy
to govern but impossible to enslave." | |
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Baron Henry Peter Brougham
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| "Education Many believe our entire public-education establishment is
going in exactly the wrong direction. Rather, having a goal of real
achievement, the trend seems to be toward reaching some kind of
educational parity, to make sure no students feel badly about themselves.
The liberal educational theoreticians tell you that bad grades only serve
to discourage underachievers. The primary objective of Outcome-Based
Education is to avoid humiliating a student. We should be educating the
student first. Students are passing courses and graduating because of
lower requirements, because of this new philosophical belief that no one
should be held back. Colleges and universities are finding out that a
high-school diploma is meaningless in terms of real achievement. The
liberal school establishment lowers standards, ignores human nature,
refuses to reward success and doesn"t punish failure." | |
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Rush H. Limbaugh III
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| "Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure
that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much
they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it." | |
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William Haley
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| "Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the
great equalizer of the conditions of man, ? the balance-wheel of the
social machinery." | |
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Horace Mann
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| "Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable
to distinguish what is worth reading." | |
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G. M. Trevelyan
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| "Every educated person is a future enemy." | |
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Martin Ludwig Bormann
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| "Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act
rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those
because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence,
then, is not an act, but a habit." | |
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Aristotle
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| "Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are
heavy." | |
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Thomas Caryle
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| "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths
theater." | |
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Gail Godwin
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| "He who opens a school door, closes a prison." | |
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Victor Hugo
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| "Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or
may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality,
increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It is the
finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical
disability, against the lack and loss of animal delights. How essential it
is, then, in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in
order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with
attractive and interesting pictures on the walls." | |
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William Lyon Phelps
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| "How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the
experiment of living?" | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid?
It must be education that does it." | |
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Alexandre Dumas
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| "I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a
professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any
other minority viewpoint--no matter how distasteful to the majority,
provided." | |
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Richard Milhouse Nixon
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| "I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of
education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every
child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think." | |
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Anne Sullivan
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| "If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his
life." | |
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Plato
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| "If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a
woman you educate a family." | |
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Ruby Manikan
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| "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!" | |
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Andy McIntyre
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| "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." | |
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Derek Bok
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| "In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he
made school boards." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions
about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an
edcuated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be
caught up into the world of thought ? that is to be educated." | |
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Edith Hamilton
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| "It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education
than to have education without common sense." | |
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Robert Green Ingersoll
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| "It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be
entirely uneducated." | |
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Alec Bourne
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| "It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods
of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of
inquiry." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense
compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was
practically settled." | |
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James Russell Lowell
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| "Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being
offensive." | |
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Josephine Tey
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| "Native ability without education is like a tree without
fruit." | |
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Aristippus
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| "Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education,
without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently
maintained." | |
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James Abram Garfield
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| "No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and
generosity hidden in the soul of a child." | |
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Goldman
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| "No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and
generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true
education should be to unlock that treasure." | |
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Emma Goldman
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| "Only the educated are free." | |
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Epictetus
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| "Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in
education. The human mind is our fundamental resource." | |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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| "Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education
there is." | |
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Isaac Asimov
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| "Spoon-feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of
the spoon." | |
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Edward Morgan "E. M." Forster
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| "Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without
study is dangerous." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which it just
can really harm no one." | |
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Henry George
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| "The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to
despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving." | |
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Russell Green
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| "The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than
what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think
for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men." | |
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Bill Beattie
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| "The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than
what to think ? rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think
for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other
men." | |
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James Beattie
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| "The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a
living." | |
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Wendell Phillips
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| "The difference between intelligence and education is this:
intelligence will make you a gook living." | |
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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| "The education of a man is never completed until he dies." | |
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Robert E. Lee
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| "The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do
the right things, but enjoy the right things ? not merely industrious, but
to love industry ? not merely learned, but to love knowledge ? not merely
pure, but to love purity ? not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after
justice." | |
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John Ruskin
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| "The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of
ideas." | |
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George Santayana
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| "The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish
the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it
with the accumulation of others." | |
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Tryon Edwards
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| "The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and
the length of your life is less important than its depth." | |
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Marilyn vos Savant
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| "The most important function of education at any level is to develop
the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to
himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest
is ornamentation and decoration of the structure." | |
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Grayson Kirk
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| "The object of education is to prepare the young to educate
themselves throughout their lives." | |
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Robert M. Hutchins
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| "The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition
of continually asking questions." | |
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Bishop Mandell Creighton
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| "The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is
of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men
in the country." | |
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John Adams
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| "The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one"s mind a
pleasant place in which to spend one"s leisure." | |
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Sydney J. Harris
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| "The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of
continually asking questions." | |
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Bishop Creighton
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| "The secret in education lies in respecting the student." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "The test and use of a man"s education is that he finds pleasure in
the exercise of his mind." | |
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Jacques Barzun
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| "The young man of native ability, the will to work and good
personality will, in the long run, get the equivalent of a college
education in the tasks he will set for himself. If he has ability and
determination, he will find ways to learn and to get ahead." | |
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Edward G. Seubert
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| "Theories and goals of education don"t matter a whit if you do not
consider your students to be human beings." | |
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Lou Ann Walker
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| "Theories are more common than achievements in the history of
education." | |
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Sir Richard Livingstone
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| "There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make
a living and the other how to live." | |
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James Truslow Adams
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| "There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off
the thing he was educated in." | |
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Will Rogers
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| "There is nothing which God cannot do." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "There is now 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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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks." | |
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Alan Alexander Milne
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| "We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one
of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought." | |
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Bertrand Russell
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| "We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With
our thoughts, We make our world." | |
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Guatama Buddha
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| "We are what we think. With our thoughts we make the world. All that
we are will rise with our thoughts." | |
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Sogyal Rinpoche
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| "We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we
say." | |
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Martin Buber
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| "We must do all in our power to educate the public, for I believe
that in the end only a change of heart is really effective." | |
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Ruth Harrison
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| "What we are is God?s gift to us. What we become is our gift to
God." | |
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Unknown
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| "What we are is more important than what we have or what is said of
us." | |
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Marvin J. Ashton
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| "What we must look for here is, first, religious and moral
principles; secondly, gentlemanly conduct; thirdly, intellectual
ability." | |
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Thomas Arnold
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| "Yeah, I"m a thrill seeker, but crikey, education"s the most
important thing." | |
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Steve Irwin
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| "You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not
such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand
experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have
no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better
? the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of
Spenser, of Austen, of Brontė, of anyone else I have read." | |
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Clive Staples (Jack) Lewis
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