"Every person has two educations, one which he……" — Edward Gibbon
"Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself."
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95 Quotes by Edward Gibbon
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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst…
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Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious…
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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is…
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Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
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Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to…
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The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory,…
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Style is the image of character.
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I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of…
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'I believe in one God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The…
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So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain…
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The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and…
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In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.
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More Educations Quotes
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There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
— James Truslow Adams
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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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The reason why we find ourselves in a position of impotency is not because the enemy has sent men to…
— Joseph McCarthy
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The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there…
— Joseph Stiglitz
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Wealth is, for most people, the only honest and likely path to liberty. With money comes power over the world.…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what…
— Patricia Richardson
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If [a student's] college’s endowment portfolio has fossil-fuel stock, then their educations are being subsidized by investments that guarantee they…
— Bill McKibben
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When I talk to people who believe in this global warming crap... it's fake science. They may have educations and…
— Rush Limbaugh
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So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with…
— Jonathan Kozol
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The future is created at the intersection of business, technology, design, and culture. *In the Bubble* is an insightful and…
— Nathan Shedroff
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It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive…
— George Wald
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Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a…
— Martin Lewis Perl
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