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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Learning

"I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students."

School Education Learning
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Learning

"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

Men Learning Greatness
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Paulo Freire Educator, Author
Learning

"... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results machinelike memorization, which I have already criticized. Critical study correlates with teaching that is equally critical, which necessarily demands a critical way of comprehending and of realizing the reading of the word and that of the world, the reading of text and of context."

Reading Teaching Learning
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Military Leader, Politician
Learning

"We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war."

War Peace Learning
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Voltaire Philosopher, Writer
Learning

"If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing."

Thinking Science Learning
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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
Learning

"It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp."

Men Learning Lame
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Lin Yutang Writer
Learning

"On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner."

Inspirational Life Learning
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Confucius Philosopher
Learning

"Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of principle. Love of faithfulness without love of learning degenerates into injurious disregard of consequences. Love of uprightness without love of learning degenerates into harshness. Love of courage without love of learning degenerates into insubordination. Love of strong character without love of learning degenerates into mere recklessness."

Love Strong Learning
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