Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTruth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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