Educational Sayings

188 sayings found from the Modern era from 188 authors

Marriage is and remains the most important discovery of the human race.

— Soren Kierkegaard 1845
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The only certain antidote to the fear of death is the knowledge that we are already dead.

— Arthur Schopenhauer 1844
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

— Simone de Beauvoir 1949
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

— Hannah Arendt 1951
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A good simile refreshes the intellect.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein 1977 (published posthumously)
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I am a mathematician and a logician, and I do not find it easy to be human.

— Bertrand Russell Approx. 1920s-1930s
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Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

— Benito Mussolini 1922
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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

— Albert Camus 1952
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Most Chinese intellectuals should be sent to work in the fields.

— Chiang Kai-shek 1937
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson 1860
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The day will come when history will speak.

— Patrice Lumumba 1961
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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

— Henry David Thoreau 1854
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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

— Friedrich Engels 1848
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The purpose of morality is to teach you not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

— Ayn Rand 1957
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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

— Sigmund Freud 1899
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The beginning of wisdom is the admission of one's own lack of knowledge. The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.

— Carl Jung Unknown
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

— B.F. Skinner 1954
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

— William James Unknown, early 20th century
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The meaning of history is that it has no meaning.

— Georg Simmel 1905
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The collective conscience is the totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society.

— Emile Durkheim 1893
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