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  • #1
    Robert Frost
    “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
    Robert Frost

  • #2
    Isaac Asimov
    “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #3
    Ray Bradbury
    “I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #4
    Bill Watterson
    “I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.”
    Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

  • #5
    Stanley Kubrick
    “I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”
    Stanley Kubrick

  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”
    Mark Twain, Notebook

  • #7
    Albert Einstein
    “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #8
    William Shakespeare
    “O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”
    William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
    Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

  • #10
    Noam Chomsky
    “Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
    Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

  • #11
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.”
    Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

  • #12
    David  Wong
    “But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.”
    david wong

  • #13
    Yukio Mishima
    “What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.”
    Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

  • #14
    Yukio Mishima
    “Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.”
    Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love

  • #15
    Yukio Mishima
    “When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds for him - the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. Yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage.”
    Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “Hearts are made to be broken.”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “Who, being loved, is poor?”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]”
    Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

  • #20
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #21
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

  • #22
    C. JoyBell C.
    “I am an extremely sincere individual. I am sincere, to a fault. One of the many things that I have come to realize, to learn, is that sincerity must be reserved and given only to those who deserve it. And one must save one's emotions, channeling them only to the people who are worthy of it. One must not throw one's pearls to the pigs.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #23
    Honoré de Balzac
    “Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.”
    Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

  • #24
    Lao Tzu
    “When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #25
    Greta Garbo
    “I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.”
    Greta Garbo

  • #26
    Josh Stern
    “Manners without sincerity, is called polite society”
    Josh Stern, And That’s Why I’m Single

  • #27
    Stieg Larsson
    “Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.”
    Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

  • #28
    Stanley Baldwin
    “I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.”
    Stanley Baldwin

  • #29
    Yukio Mishima
    “Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.”
    Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

  • #30
    Yukio Mishima
    “Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.”
    Yukio Mishima, After the Banquet



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