"It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense."

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Source : William Cobbett (1817). “Cobbett's Weekly Political Register”

William Cobbett

#Education Quotes #Real Quotes #Boys Quotes

“You must lose everything in order to gain anything.”
“Can you remember the last time you were in love? Your heart went ahhh. It was such a wonderful feeling. Itâ€™s the same thing with loving yourself except that you will never leave. Once you have your love for yourself, itâ€™s with you for the rest of your life, so you want to make it the best relationship you can have.”
“Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.”
“I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel.”
“It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.”
“I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.”
“No-limit people are so in charge that they can trust their instincts, be childlike, be creative, do anything that makes sense to them and make their lives into what they really believe they want for themselves.”
“The whole world is covered in buttons, and not one of them is mine!”

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