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#1

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”
― Socrates

tags: inspirational, reading, wisdom

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#2

“The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.”
― Ernest Renan

tags: archimedes, progress

33 likes

#3

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
― Maimonides

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#4

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success

tags: knowledge

877 likes

#5

“Ipsa scientia potestas est.

Knowledge itself is power.”
― Francis Bacon, Meditations Sacrae and Human Philosophy

tags: knowledge, power

188 likes

#6

“Only the educated are free.”
― Epictetus

tags: education

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#7

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

tags: self-awareness, self-discovery

3150 likes

#8

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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#9

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom

7315 likes

#10

“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
― George Santayana, The Life of Reason Volume 1

tags: history, past

6 likes

#11

“Beware the man of one book.”
― Latin proverb

tags: book-collecting

13 likes

#12

“A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: reading

46 likes

#13

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

35753 likes

#14

“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
― Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being

tags: assumptions, hammer, instrumentalism, problem-solving, psychology, science, temptation

1093 likes

#15

“You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.”
― Will Hunting

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#16

“With knowledge being universally accessible, there will be no excuses for non-performance.”
― Peter Drucker

tags: action, knowledge, learning

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#17

“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.”
― John Naisbitt, Megatrends

60 likes

#18

“Read not the Times. Read the Eternities. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle

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