"The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most."
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"I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive."
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"You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration."
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"There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship."
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"Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?"
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"The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth."
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"Children need models rather than critics."
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"Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man."
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"Education is the cheap defense of nations."
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"Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world."
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"Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence."
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"Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one)."
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"The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all."
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"The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one."
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"The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances."
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"We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being."
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"Knowledge is love and light and vision."
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"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness."
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"A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar."
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"The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side."
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