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"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn."	Robert Frost
"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything."	Thomas Edison
"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
"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
"Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil."	Plato
"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
"He listens well who takes notes."	Dante Alighieri
"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."	C.S. Lewis
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."	George Santayana
"The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-ŕ-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value."	Oscar Wilde
"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
"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."	Elbert Hubbard
"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
"Learning without thought is labor lost."	Confucius
"If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them."	Buckminster Fuller

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Confucius	C.S. Lewis	Daniel Webster
Dante Alighieri	David Hume	Dick Cheney
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