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Wilhelm von Humboldt has 43 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events…
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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet…
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Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the…
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It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
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How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.
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War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret…
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If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent,…
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Language makes infinite use of finite media.
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Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.
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Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who…
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If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being,…
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Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to…
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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The word "mathematics" is a Greek word and, by origin, it means "something that has been learned or understood," or perhaps "acquired…
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The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior…
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The organizer of industry who thinks he has 'made' himself and his business has found a whole social system ready to his…
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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge
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I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is…
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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that…
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To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to…
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Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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The true value of an education is in providing a wisdom tool to each and every student to make a good life…
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