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"History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again."
Kurt Vonnegut
"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."
Alexandre Dumas
"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn."
Robert Frost
"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
Pablo Picasso
"I believe one of the reasons so many do not get a higher education is the fear of their parents that they will lose more morally than they will receive mentally."
William Jennings Bryan
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
Mark Twain
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him."
Benjamin Franklin
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
Thomas Jefferson
"If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them."
Buckminster Fuller
"If you want to get laid, go to college, but if you want an education, go to the library."
Frank Zappa
"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil."
Plato
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
Mark Twain
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Aristotle
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
Albert Einstein
"Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies."
Leon Trotsky
"Learning has been [a] great loser by being shut up in colleges and cells and secluded from the world and good company."
David Hume
"Learning without thought is labor lost."
Confucius
"Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain."
John F. Kennedy
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