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“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
C.S. LewisNovelist
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“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
C.S. Lewis
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“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
Lemony SnicketWriter
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“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
Lemony Snicket
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“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
Benjamin FranklinFounding Father of the United States
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“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
Benjamin Franklin
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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson MandelaFormer President of South Africa
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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela
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“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong”
F. Scott FitzgeraldNovelist
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“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
Robert FrostPoet
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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
Robert Frost
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“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
Rudyard KiplingJournalist
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“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
Rudyard Kipling
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“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
P.G. WodehouseAuthor
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“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
P.G. Wodehouse
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“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
E.L. DoctorowNovelist
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“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
E.L. Doctorow
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“There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.”
Frank HerbertFiction writer
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“There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.”
Frank Herbert
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“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
Philip PullmanWriter
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“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
Philip Pullman
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“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
Hermann HessePoet
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“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
Hermann Hesse
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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.”
Oscar WildePlaywright
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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.”
Oscar Wilde
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“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
Henry David ThoreauEssayist
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“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
Neil GaimanAuthor
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“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
Neil Gaiman
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“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
Nora EphronJournalist
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“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
Nora Ephron
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“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
Robert FrostPoet
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“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
Robert Frost
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“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
Margaret FullerJournalist
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“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
Margaret Fuller
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“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
W. Somerset MaughamPlaywright
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“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
W. Somerset Maugham
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“The first draft of anything is shit.”
Ernest HemingwayNovelist
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“The first draft of anything is shit.”
Ernest Hemingway
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“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
Stephen KingAuthor
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“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
Stephen King
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“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
John LockePhilosopher
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“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
John Locke
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“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
Lemony SnicketWriter
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“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
Lemony Snicket
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“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert FrostPoet
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“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost
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“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
Mark TwainWriter
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“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
Mark Twain
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“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
Katherine MansfieldShort story writer
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“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
Katherine Mansfield
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“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
François MauriacNovelist
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“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
François Mauriac
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“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
Charles DickensWriter
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“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
Charles Dickens
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“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
Neil GaimanAuthor
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“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
Neil Gaiman
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“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
Margaret MeadCultural Anthropologist
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“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
Margaret Mead
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“A library is infinity under a roof.”
Gail Carson LevineAuthor
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“A library is infinity under a roof.”
Gail Carson Levine
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“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
Joyce Carol OatesWriter
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“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
Joyce Carol Oates
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“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
Franz KafkaWriter
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“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
Franz Kafka
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“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
Benjamin FranklinFounding Father of the United States
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“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
Benjamin Franklin
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“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
Neil GaimanAuthor
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“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
Neil Gaiman
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“You can make anything by writing.”
C.S. LewisNovelist
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“You can make anything by writing.”
C.S. Lewis
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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. EliotEssayist
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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
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“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
Steven SpielbergDirector
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“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
Steven Spielberg
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“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
Mark TwainWriter
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“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
Mark Twain
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“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
Frank ZappaMusician
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“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
Frank Zappa
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“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
Stephen FryComedian
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“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
Stephen Fry
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“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
Martin Luther King Jr.Minister
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“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
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“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
Robert FrostPoet
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“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
Robert Frost
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“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
Stanley FishScholar
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“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
Stanley Fish
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“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
Norman RushWriter
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“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
Norman Rush
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“Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.”
A. P. J. Abdul KalamFormer President of India
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“Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.”
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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“Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.”
A. P. J. Abdul KalamFormer President of India
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“Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.”
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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“Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.”
A. P. J. Abdul KalamFormer President of India
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“Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.”
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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“Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.”
A. P. J. Abdul KalamFormer President of India
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“Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.”
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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“The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.”
A. P. J. Abdul KalamFormer President of India
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“The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.”
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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“To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.”
A. A. MilneAuthor
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“To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.”
A. A. Milne
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“A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.”
Adolf HitlerGerman Politician
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“Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.”
Adolf Hitler
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“Lying is done with words and also with silence.”
Adrienne RichPoet
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“Lying is done with words and also with silence.”
Adrienne Rich
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“The moment of change is the only poem.”
Adrienne RichPoet
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Adrienne Rich
“The moment of change is the only poem.”
Adrienne Rich
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“Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.”
Adrienne RichPoet
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“Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.”
Adrienne Rich
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“It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.”
Agatha ChristieNovelist
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“It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.”
Agatha Christie
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“The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.”
Albert CamusPhilosopher
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“The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.”
Albert Camus
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“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
Albert EinsteinScientist
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“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
Albert Einstein
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“The only source of knowledge is experience.”
Albert EinsteinScientist
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“The only source of knowledge is experience.”
Albert Einstein
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“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
Albert EinsteinScientist
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“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
Albert Einstein
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“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
Albert EinsteinScientist
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“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
Albert Einstein
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“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
Albert EinsteinScientist
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“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
Albert Einstein
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“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
Albert EinsteinScientist
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“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
Albert Einstein
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“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
Albert EinsteinScientist
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“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
Albert Einstein
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“Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.”
Albert EinsteinScientist
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“Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.”
Albert Einstein
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“Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
Albert EinsteinScientist
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“Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
Albert Einstein
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“Experience teaches only the teachable.”
Aldous HuxleyWriter
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“Experience teaches only the teachable.”
Aldous Huxley
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“Every man's memory is his private literature.”
Aldous HuxleyWriter
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“Every man's memory is his private literature.”
Aldous Huxley
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“The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.”
Aldous HuxleyWriter
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“The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.”
Aldous Huxley
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“A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”
Alexander PopePoet
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“A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”
Alexander Pope
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“Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.”
Alexander PopePoet
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“Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.”
Alexander Pope
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“Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”
Alexander PopePoet
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“Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”
Alexander Pope
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“'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.”
Alexander PopePoet
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“'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.”
Alexander Pope
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“The proper study of Mankind is Man.”
Alexander PopePoet
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“The proper study of Mankind is Man.”
Alexander Pope
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“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.”
Alexander PopePoet
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“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.”
Alexander Pope
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