Educational Sayings
188 sayings found from the Modern era from 188 authors
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Marriage is and remains the most important discovery of the human race.
The only certain antidote to the fear of death is the knowledge that we are already dead.
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
A good simile refreshes the intellect.
I am a mathematician and a logician, and I do not find it easy to be human.
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Most Chinese intellectuals should be sent to work in the fields.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
The day will come when history will speak.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
The purpose of morality is to teach you not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
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.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
The meaning of history is that it has no meaning.
The collective conscience is the totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society.