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“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

“No one can take it away from you.”

“[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.”

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.”

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”

“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”

“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”

“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”

“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.”

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

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

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.”

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

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

“You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.”

“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.”

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”

“Curiosity has its own reason for existence.”

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”