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#1

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

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#2

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

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#3

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young

tags: education, feminism, men, women

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#4

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
― Robert Frost

tags: education

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#5

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: education

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#6

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
― Mark Twain

tags: education

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#7

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ”
― Jane Austen

tags: education, women

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#8

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch

tags: curiosity, education, mentoring, mind, thinking

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#9

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”
― Mark Twain, Notebook

tags: education

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#10

“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.”
― Michel Legrand

tags: apothegm, education, life, lifelong-learning, lyrics

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#11

“By seeking and blundering we learn.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: education, experience, learning-from-mistakes

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#12

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
― Jim Rohn

tags: education, self-improvement

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#13

“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.”
― John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life

tags: education, enlightenment, happiness, learning, life, nature-art, pleasure, purity, science, training

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#14

“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.”
― Slavoj Žižek

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#15

“Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.”
― May Sarton

tags: education, school

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#16

“The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.”
― Plato, The Republic of Plato

tags: afterlife, culture, education

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#17

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#18

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage

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#19

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

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#20

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
― Aristotle

tags: friendship, soul

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#21

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”
― Muhammad Ali

tags: friendship

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#22

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen

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#23

“The best mirror is an old friend.”
― George Herbert

tags: friendship

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#24

“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”
― John Churton Collins

tags: friendship

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#25

“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. ”
― Ali Bin Abi Thalib

tags: friendship

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#26

“There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.”
― Ali Bin Abi Thalib

tags: education, inspirational

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#27

“The value of a person is what he does best.”
― Ali Bin Abi Thalib

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#28

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#29

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#30

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E.B. White

tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure

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