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“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
― Rumi

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

“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

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

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
― Plato

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
― Malcolm X

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
― Aristotle

“Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.”
― Charles Schultz

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

“I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.”
― Ray Bradbury

“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays Including Essays, First & Second Series, English Traits, Nature & Considerations by the Way

“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

“If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”
― Albert Einstein

“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”
― Albert Einstein

“Americans have a tendency to believe that when there's a problem there must be a solution.”
― Henry Kissinger

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
― Théophile Gautier

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
― Albert Einstein

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
― Albert Einstein

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
― Albert Einstein

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

“When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes.”
― Dale Renton

“Don't bite off more than you can chew because nobody looks attractive spitting it back out.”
― Carroll Bryant

“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”
― Christopher Markus

“It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Maya

“It comes from within.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Life is a constant process of dying.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.”
― Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence

“Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”
― Voltaire