Quotes in this theme
Education and Knowledge
E.M. Forster
As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.
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J.R.R. Tolkien
'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.' J. R. R.
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Platão
The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth . . .
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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E.M. Forster
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves. E. M.
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François Mauriac
“Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are” is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread.
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Paul Fort
It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but hard work to actually know what one is talking about.
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Henri-Frédéric Amiel
A modest garden . . . contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
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C.S. Lewis
Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
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C.S. Lewis
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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