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“The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.”

Men Lord Learning Mankind Singing Silent Brutes

Book:The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems

Source: The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems

“Lionel Johnson comes the first to mind, That loved his learning better than mankind, Though courteous to the worst; much falling he Brooded upon sanctity.”

Mind Firsts Fall Learning Worst Mankind Johnson Sanctity Courteous

Book:Later Poems

Source: Later Poems

“The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.”

Children Mother Father Education Responsibility Learning Groups Mankind Educational Agency

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.”

Men Animal Education Knowledge Learning Mankind Strange Wall Educational Handwriting Handwriting On The Wall

Author:Adlai Stevenson I

“It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly due to a fatal desire-learned from the teachings of antiquity-that our writers on public affairs have in common: They desire to set themselves above mankind in order to arrange, organize, and regulate it according to their fancy.”

Humans Desire Order Common Race Liberty Learning Teaching Mankind Affair Dues Tendencies France Human Race Fancy Organize Antiquity Public Affairs

Book:The Law

Source: The Law

“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”

“When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.”

Source: Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self