"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
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"A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process."
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"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."
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"You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself."
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"Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment."
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
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"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity."
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"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."
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"Always do what you are afraid to do."
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"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
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"You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness."
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"Teachers are the one and only people who save nations."
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"we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure that sectarian schooling does not convert education into a prison, rather than being a passport to the wide world."
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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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"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider."
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"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."
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"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."
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"Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."
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"Giving a poor person money keeps them poorer longer...often forever; give them knowledge instead."
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"My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity."
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