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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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• I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Son, Pay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.121, Harvard University Press

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• Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.

  Bell Hooks

  Children, Passion, Learning

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.13, Routledge

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• The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

  Helen Keller

  Education, Awareness, Educated

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

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• Educate a woman, you educate a nation.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Nations

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• One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most persons who have achieved fame and success in the world of ideas are cynical about formal education. These people are a select few, who often achieved success in spite of their education, or even without it. As has been said, the clever largely educate themselves, those less able aren't sufficiently clever or imaginative to benefit much from education.

  Edward Gibbon

  Education, Clever, Ideas

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• Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

  Mother Jones

  Education, Down And, Conflict

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• You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

  Brigham Young

  Family, Education, Strong Women

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• Educate and inform the whole mass of the people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Liberty, Mass

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

  Kathleen Blanco

  Education, Jobs, Thinking

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• If I had the choice of educating a boy or a girl, I would educate the girl. If you educate a boy, you educate one, but if you educate a girl, you educate a generation.

  Brigham Young

  Girl, Boys, Choices

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• Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

  Victor Hugo

  Children, Rich, Knows

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• Take some time and educate your mind, in the long run I'm sure you're fine.

  Coolio

  Education, Running, Long

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• Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that.

  Nikki Reed

  People, Voting, Needs

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• I read a lot of scripts. I believe you've got to read one that you know you're not going to do, because you've got to educate yourself on what's out there to make the best decision for you.

  Eva Mendes

  Believe, Decision, Scripts

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• I try to educate myself as much as possible, as I do with the director and the designers and everyone I used to work with. It just helps, I think, with the frame of reference for who you're working with.

  David Schwimmer

  Thinking, Trying, Helping

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's very important, once you are a parent, that you educate your kid day by day.

  Ana Tijoux

  Kids, Parent, Important

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• If you don't educate yourself, this is an area of your life that it is a game.

  Tony Robbins

  Games, Areas, Ifs

  "Interview with Tony Robbins on His New Book, ‘Money: Master the Game’". Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2014.

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• Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

  Ken Robinson

  Education, Jobs, Future

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• Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

  Duke of Wellington

  Education, Teacher, Retirement

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• To Educate is to Free.

  Jose Marti

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• It is defeat which educates us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Defeat

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• People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Beautiful, Education, Children

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.49

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• The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

  George Henry Lewes

  Education, Philosophy, Principles

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• The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Strength, Exercise, Development And Growth

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.396

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