Quotes

229

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper understanding.

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Vincent Van Gogh

230

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

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George Bernard Shaw

231

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn.

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Mark Twain

232

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

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Agatha Christie

233

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

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Churchill

234

Don't listen to what they say. Go see.

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Chinese proverb

235

Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.

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Saint Augustin

236

Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.

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Seneca

237

The wise man's home is the universe.

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Democrites

238

Who lives sees much. Who travels sees more.

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Arab proverb

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