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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but…
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Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it…
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Education is the movement from darkness to light.
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be…
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Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here…
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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop…
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Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it…
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Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to…
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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
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Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here…
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
— Barbara Bush
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In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
— S I Hayakawa
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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders…
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Read good, big important things.
— Peggy Noonan
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Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have…
— Jane Kenyon
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Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why…
— Jack Handey
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Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.
— Ernest Dimnet
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If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write.…
— Patricia Briggs
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When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.
— Sharon Creech
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My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.
— Dick Schaap
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