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Education, Books
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Quotes About Education, Sayings About Books
"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power
to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists,
to make his life full, significant and interesting."
-- Aldous Huxley
"A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end.
You live several lives while reading it."
-- William Styron
"If you want to be original, question all truths handed down to you."
-- Niles Eldridge
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
William Butler Yeats
"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island."
-- Walt Disney
"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it."
-- James Bryce
"Only the educated are free."
-- Epictetus
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen
and thinking what nobody has thought."
-- Albert Gyorgyi
"Education is the ability to meet life's situations."
-- Dr. John G. Hibben
"Books are the compass and telescopes and sextants and charts
which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life."
-- Jesse Lee Bennett
"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes."
-- Desiderius Erasmus
"Book: A garden carried in a pocket."
--Arabian Proverb
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."
Northrup Frye
" 'Tis the good reader that makes the good book."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"People say life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
-- Logan Pearsall Smith
"Beware the man of one book."
-- Latin Proverb
"No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer
than that blown by the successful teacher."
-- William Osler
"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought
without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will
go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where
a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy."
-- Edward P. Morgan
"A teacher affects eternity; he can
never tell where his influence stops."
-- Henry Brooks Adams
"The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires."
-- William A. Ward
"Teaching is not a lost art, but
the regard for it is a lost tradition."
-- Jacques Barzun
"Teaching is the greatest act of optimism."
-- Colleen Wilcox
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
-- Groucho Marx
"Teachers open the door, but
you must enter by yourself."
-- Chinese Proverb
"No man who worships education has got the best out of
education.... Without a gentle contempt for education
no man's education is complete."
-- G.K. Chesterton
"A good book has no ending."
-- R.D. Cumming
"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors
into windows."
-- Sydney J. Harris
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten
what one has learned in school."
-- Albert Einstein
"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."
-- Victor Hugo
"A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you
and remains a friend."
-- Author Unknown
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
-- Will Durant
"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education
than to have education without common sense."
-- Robert G. Ingersoll
"My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter."
-- Thomas Helm
"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page
and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."
-- Paul Sweeney
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