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"The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others."
"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."
"Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way."
"Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both."
"Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and try for the sake of trying. So there is a possibility of what I would call playing. It's perhaps the only place within society where play is possible to such an extent."
"An educated people can be easily governed."
"Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know."
"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."
"He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."
"You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts."
"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."
"In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated."
"In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you."
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before."
"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy."
"Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi."
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
"Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil."
"You teach best what you most need to learn."
