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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The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
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What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.
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If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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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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What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
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I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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