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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General (1998) -
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement - in a word, with more renunciation than you care for - and so you flee the contagion.
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Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
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It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
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Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment.
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Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
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The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 91 -
The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
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