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“A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.”

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Author:Ani DiFranco

“The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.”

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Author:David Hockney

“Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles or our bombers, not our production economy, not even our democratic system of government. For all of these are worthless if we lack the brain power to support and sustain them.”

“No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.”

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Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.”

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Book:American diary, 1898

Source: American diary, 1898

“So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.”

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Author:Olivia Wilde

“An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.”

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Author:Eric Hoffer

“I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.”

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Author:Timothy Leary

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

“Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.”

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Author:Ambrose Bierce

“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”

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Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.”

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Author:Alexander Pope

“I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.”

Inspirational Giving I Can Brain Education Learning Diploma

Author:L. Frank Baum

“Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.”

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Book:Education of Vision

Source: Education of Vision

“Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by color, but by the brain, by education, by willpower, by moral courage.”