"The mere imparting of information is not education."

-- Carter G. Woodson

#Education Quotes #Information Quotes

“We're all attracted to the perfume of fermenting joy, we've all tried to start a fire, and one day maybe it will blaze up on its own. In the meantime, she is the one today among us most able to bear the idea of her own beauty...”

Source : Tony Hoagland, “Grammar”
“You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.”
“When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, 'Oh, that sound's bothering me.' If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper, we see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there's nothing more to it. We leave it be. The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.”
“Churchill , he is a great man. He is, of course, our enemy and has always been the enemy of Communism, but he is an enemy one must respect, an enemy one likes to have.”

Source : "Tito: A Biography". Book by Jasper Ridley, 1994.
“You can't have everything, even in California”
“And now 'tis man who dares assault the sky ... And as we come to claim our promised place, Aim only to replay the good you gave, And warm with human love the chill of space.”
“Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.”

Source : Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.13, Harper Collins
“Well, wherever you go, whatever you do, you're still you. You can change your surroundings, start a new life, but you'll always fall into the same old patterns, make the same kind of friends, commit the same mistakes. The thing you need to change is yourself.”

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