"The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom."

-- Mirra Komarovsky

#Education Quotes #School Quotes #Self Quotes

“Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.'”
“I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that was scrimping by at times. We were watching the dollar, stretching the dollar, and coupons. It was all those things.”
“It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.”
“When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.”
“…and to all you other cats and chicks out there, sweet or otherwise, buried deep in wordy tombs, who never yet have walked from off the page, a shake and a hug and a kiss and a drink. Cheers!”
“Don't tell people how to live, demonstrate by example.”
“Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.”
“Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.”

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