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“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.”

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”

“A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?”

“Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.”

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”