We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERThe central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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