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

“In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. ”
― Fran Lebowitz

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

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.”
― Phil Collins

“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.”
― Brigham Young

“Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills.”
― Charles Platt

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead

“There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley, Way to Be!: 9 Ways To Be Happy And Make Something Of Your Life

“There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inkling of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living...In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution; but that fact should not blind us to another—namely, that in so doing we are learning a trade or a profession, but are not getting a liberal education as human beings.”
― James Truslow Adams

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
― Confucius

“True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.”
― David O. McKay

“At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material wealth acquired, or power and prestige, but rather on the basis of what you have become as persons and what you are in conduct and character.”
― Howard W. Hunter

“The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no worldly success can compensate for failure in the home.”
― David O. McKay

“It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.”
― Ezra Taft Benson

“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.”
― Roger Lewin

“When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?”
― Enrico Bombieri

“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
― John Lennon

“No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.”
― Walt Disney Company

“Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.”
― Marsha Norman, The Fortune Teller

“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.”
― Belva Davis

“Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.”
― Edgar Cayce

“Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.”
― Brett Butler

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.”
― Walt Disney Company, 12 Princess Stories

“I've pursued dreams and achieved them, but I don't think anybody should think their life is incomplete if they don't follow some dream. Happiness doesn't come from achievements, or money, or any sort of treasure. Happiness is a frame of mind, not a destination. It's appreciating what you've got and building relationships with those around you.”
― Janette Rallison

“Yes, if it is meant to be, it will be. In the meantime, create your own fate. Plan big and dream bigger.”
― Destiny Booze

“Goals are dreams with deadlines.”
― Diana Scharf

“Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones