"There are two educations. One should teach us……" — John Adams
"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
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128 Quotes by John Adams
John Adams has 128 quotes on this site.
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The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to…
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any…
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot…
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Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want…
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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did…
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man…
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
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More Educations Quotes
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one of 18 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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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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Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.
— Edward Gibbon
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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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