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"Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil."
Plato
"People will pay more to be entertained than educated."
Johnny Carson
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him."
Benjamin Franklin
"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything."
Thomas Edison
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."
Malcolm Forbes
"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about."
Wayne Dyer
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul."
Joseph Addison
"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."
Confucius
"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."
C.S. Lewis
"The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."
Daniel Webster
"Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies."
Leon Trotsky
"While the romanticized ideal of universal public education resonates with the cognoscenti who oppose vouchers, poor urban families just want the best education for their children, who will certainly need it to function in our high-tech and advanced society."
Clarence Thomas
"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education."
Bertrand Russell
"Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself."
Bill Gates
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
Will Durant
"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher."
Elbert Hubbard
"Learning without thought is labor lost."
Confucius
"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."
Elbert Hubbard
"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn."
Robert Frost
"We are living in a world, where what we earn is a function of what we learn."
Bill Clinton
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