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“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
― Voltaire

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
― Socrates

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard Feynmann

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

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

“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
― Edmund Burke

“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.”
― Harold Howe

“Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.”
― Max Brooks, Zombie Survival Guide, The: Complete Protection From The Living Dead

“She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Soul Music