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Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to, convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.
I know of no safe repository for the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to increase their discretion by education.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
It was in masking education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
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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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