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2006 June 09
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"Education is the best provision for old age." |
"We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free." |
"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life." |
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2006 June 08
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"The trouble with most folks
isn't so much their ignorance,
as knowing so many things
that ain't so." |
"There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way
of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned,
and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely,
the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom,
the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance
while making a display of our apparent knowledge." |
"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other." |
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2006 June 07
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"A nation of well informed men
who have been taught to know and prize the rights
which God has given them cannot be enslaved.
It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins." |
"To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave." |
"None are more hopelessly enslaved
than those who falsely believe they are free." |
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2006 June 06
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"There is no slavery but ignorance.
Liberty is the child of intelligence." |
"Knowledge and human power are synonymous." |
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,
in a state of civilization,
it expects what never was and never will be." |
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2006 June 05
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"Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge.
Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights." |
"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." |
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge
is the only guardian of true liberty." |
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