"Education is all paint - it does not alter the nature of the wood that lies under it, it only improves its appearance a little. Why I dislike education so much is, that it makes all people alike, until you have examined into them; and it sometimes is so long before you get to see under the varnish!"

-- Lady Hester Stanhope

#Education Quotes #Lying Quotes #Long Quotes

“Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character.”
“In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.”
“The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.”
“No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.”
“A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.”
“Fact is richer than diction.”
“Come, my best friends, my best books, and lead me on.”
“In a big Bollywood romantic film, taking my shirt off and spreading the hand towards the mountain with dancers behind me are not my cup of tea.”

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