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.
ELBERT HUBBARDThe recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Responsibility is the price of freedom.
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Fences are made for those who cannot fly.
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The more one knows, the more one simplifies.
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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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Men are only as great as they are kind.
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Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
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Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
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We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
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The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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Failure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
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