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“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you.”
― Annie Dillard

“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
― William Blake

“Push it. examine all things intensely and relentlessly.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
― Albert Einstein

“I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.”
― Wallace Stevens

“The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

“Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.”
― Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk

“I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.”
― Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk

“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
― John Dewey

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. ”
― John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”
― John Dewey

“Hunger not to have, but to be”
― John Dewey

“Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.”
― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs. ”
― John Dewey

“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”
― John Dewey

“Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself.”
― John Dewey

“Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.”
― john dewey

“Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.”
― John Dewey, A Common Faith

“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.”
― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.”
― John Dewey

“Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.”
― John Dewey, Art as Experience

“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
― Albert Pike

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I am going to die, her brain recited calmly. I am going to be stabbed until I am died. How infuriating. I have so much left to do.”
― Claire Legrand, The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

“He lived in a dreamer's world of ivory keys and messy shirts, unconcerned with the people around him.”
― Claire Legrand, The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls