Educational Sayings

188 sayings found from the Modern era from 188 authors

The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.

— Simone Weil 1947 (posthumous)
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The object of the banking concept of education is to turn them into automatons—the minimization of their creative power.

— Paulo Freire 1968
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The greatest mistake is to think that you are too old to learn.

— Leo Tolstoy 1903
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866
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When you have to deal with a man, you have to deal with his whole history.

— Victor Hugo 1862
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

— Franz Kafka 1904
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A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

— James Joyce 1922
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

— George Orwell 1949
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

— Aldous Huxley 1950s
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The hardest thing about writing a book is getting it started.

— Ernest Hemingway 1950s
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He discovered that the love of his life was not a woman, but a bicycle.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1967
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If I were to write a history of my literary life, it would be a history of my readings and not of my writings.

— Jorge Luis Borges 1970s
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

— Oscar Wilde 1890
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The Zeroes – taught us – Phosphorus – We learned by their Delay – The Moon – and Sun – our lesson gave – Of Caverned Yesterday –

— Emily Dickinson c. 1877
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

— Robert Frost Unknown
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I have been so long in the study of the supernatural that I have come to believe in nothing else.

— William Butler Yeats 1892
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I am a book of love, written in the language of the sea.

— Pablo Neruda Unknown
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

— Rabindranath Tagore 1915
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There is that proverb that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

— Chinua Achebe 1988
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The first step in the direction of a better life is to acknowledge the ugly truth. The second step is to overcome the fear of speaking out.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973
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