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There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough -- the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.
Author: Floyd Dell
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Author: Robertson Davies
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Author: Tryon Edwards
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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
Author: Shecky Greene
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Author: Bob Perelman
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Author: G. K. Chesterton
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
Author: Tom Clancy
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If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of the Mighty one --I am become Death,The shatterer of Worlds. - Bhagavad Gita.
Author: Hindu Spiritual
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Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!A farewell, and then forever!Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves him?Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me. - Ae Fond Kiss.
Author: Robert Burns
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And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. - Isaiah 2:4.
Author: Isaiah
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Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;Do thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh,By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest. - Paradise Lost.
Author: John Milton
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What passing bells for these who die as cattle?Only the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons. - Anthem for Doomed Youth.
Author: Wilfred Owen
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If thou shouldst never see my face again,Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of. - The Passing of Arthur.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
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I hold it true,what'er befall;I feel it, when I sorrow most;'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all. - In Memoriam.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts. - Aeneid, The.
Author: Virgil
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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Author: Charles Simic
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When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.
Author: Edwin Bourdet
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A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.
Author: H.l. Mencken
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All literature is political.
Author: Levar Burton
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
Author: Francis Bacon
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Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.
Author: Maxwell Bodenheim
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Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
Author: Fawn M. Brodie
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
Author: William J. Durant
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Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
Author: Francis Bacon
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Author: Smith & Jones
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Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come.
Author: Flannery O'connor
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Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of stars! - Caliban in the Coal Mines.
Author: Louis Untermeyer
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You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries... - Melting Pot, The.
Author: Israel Zangwill
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If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.
Author: Joseph Brodsky
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Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.
Author: Charles Churchill
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You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.
Author: Hari Dass Baba
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I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was compelled to go to sea, voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end, which, being truth itself, is one -- one for all men and for all occupations.
Author: Joseph Conrad
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The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
Author: Norman Douglas
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An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Author: Henry Kissinger
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The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
Author: Margaret Atwood
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People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with bad.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
Author: Denis Diderot
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The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
Author: Aharon Appelfeld
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First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes. - Don Quixote.
Author: Miguel De Cervantes
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Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever. - The Brook.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor! - Aeneid, The.
Author: Virgil
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Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon."N.B.: Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire. - Pensees d'Aout.
Author: Charles Augustin Sainte-beuve
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A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.
Author: Albert Camus
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Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
Author: Flannery O'connor
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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
Author: Thomas Carruthers
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Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
Author: Jacques Barzun
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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
Author: Cicero
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This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau
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At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince! You should have fear'd, what now you feel;Achilles absent was Achilles still:Yet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid. - Iliad, The.
Author: Homer
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