Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Attributed, but more famously associated with Plutarch. Unlikely a direct Goethe quote.
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