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Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; the cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education
I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct
To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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