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    Socrates
    “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: education, enlightenment, learning, lifelong-learning, mentorship
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: education, learning, lifelong-learning, self-education
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    W.B. Yeats
    “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
    ― William Butler Yeats
    tags: education, lifelong-learning
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    “The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.”
    ― Michel Legrand
    tags: apothegm, education, life, lifelong-learning, lyrics
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    Albert Einstein
    “Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: inspirational, lifelong-learning
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    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.”
    ― Gordon B. Hinckley, Way to Be!: 9 Ways To Be Happy And Make Something Of Your Life
    tags: complacency, education, lifelong-learning
    197 likes

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    Michel de Montaigne
    “There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: learning, lifelong-learning, philosophy, socrates
    343 likes

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    Samuel Johnson
    “Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”
    ― Samuel Johnson, The Rambler
    tags: curiosity, lifelong-learning
    247 likes

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    Robert E. Lee
    “The education of a man is never completed until he dies.”
    ― Robert E. Lee
    tags: lifelong-learning
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: lifelong-learning
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: sadness
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    Virginia Woolf
    “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, intelligence, men, misogyny, self-determination, social-norms, stereotypes, thought, women
    2609 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: criticism, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, judgment, men, misogyny, poetry, respect, women, writing
    1317 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: poems, poetry, writing
    276 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: aspirations, dreams, hopes, inspirational, life
    265 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “some we know to be dead even though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through all the forms of life; other are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
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    Virginia Woolf
    “clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: characters, isolation, loneliness, personality, solitude
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    Virginia Woolf
    “By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: dreams, life, truth
    209 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
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    Virginia Woolf
    “For what more terrifying revelation can there be than that it is the present moment? That we survive the shock at all is only possible because the past shelters us on one side and the future on another.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: present-moment, time
    47 likes

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    T.H. White
    “The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.”
    ― T.H. White, The Once and Future King
    tags: humor, unity
    224 likes

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    T.H. White
    “Only fools want to be great.”
    ― T.H. White, The Once and Future King
    tags: arthurian
    173 likes

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  • #24
    William Faulkner
    “To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.”
    ― William Faulkner
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