You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
ELBERT HUBBARDBe yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Success consists in the climb.
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Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
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Most people like hard work, particularly when they’re paying for it.
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The more one knows, the more one simplifies.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
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