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• Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Self

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• My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Education, Morning, Teaching

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• In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Work, Reality

  "Va-Va-Voodoo! : Find Love, Make Love & Keep Love". Book by Kathleen Charlotte, Ross Heaven (p. 33), 2007.

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• In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Education, Philosophy, Teaching

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• Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Time, Tasks, May

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• I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Letting Go, Flower, Georgia

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Richard Marshall, Yvonne Scott, Achille Bonito Oliva, Vancouver Art Gallery (2007). “Georgia O'Keeffe: nature and abstraction”, Skira - Berenice

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• I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

  Blaise Pascal

  Time, Usual, Letters

  Lettres Provinciales no. 16 (1657) See Thoreau 34; WoodrowWilson 25

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• Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

  William Penn

  Time, Past, Done

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• Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Knowledge, Independent, Intellectual

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

  Alexander Pope

  Birthday, Graduation, Education

  Epistles to Several Persons "To Lord Cobham" l. 101 (1734)

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• Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

  Karl Popper

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  Lecture to British Academy, 20 Jan. 1960, in Proceedings of the British Academy (1960) vol. 46, p. 69

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• We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Philosophical, Adversity

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• Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Literature, Caricatures, Educated And Uneducated

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Pennsylvania University Press, 1968.

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• If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Courage, Knowledge, Ideas

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• To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Teaching, Philosophical, Errors

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• A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

  Thomas Szasz

  Education, Teacher, Retirement

  'The Second Sin' (1973) 'Education'

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• Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Men, Use

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

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• Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

  Voltaire

  Spiritual, Women, Warrior

  Dictionnaire Philosophique "Women" (1764)

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• Teaching is the royal road to learning.

  Jessamyn West

  Education, Teaching, Math

  Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

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• Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Blood, Sweat, Taught

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• Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Knowledge, Views, Decision

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.50, University of Chicago Press

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• If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

  Mao Zedong

  Change, Military, Knowledge

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.108, Lulu.com

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• The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Live Life, Yoga

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.183, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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