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From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.
Dick Cheney1941–2025
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936In The Illustrated London News (1905–1907)
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943 (full text, audio).
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Believe me, you will find more lessons in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters.
Bernard of Clairvaux1090–1153Epistola CVI, sect. 2; translation from Edward Churton The Early English Church ([1840] 1841) p. 324
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Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.
Tom Clancy1947–2013Schafer interview (1995)
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We are living in a world, where what we earn is a function of what we learn.
Bill Clintonborn 1946
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon (1820), Volume 1, Vol. I; CCCXXII
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon (1820), Volume 1, Vol. I; CCCXXXIV
That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Preface
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He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Confucius551–479 BC
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Learning without thought is labor lost.
Confucius551–479 BCAnalects, Chapter II, To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
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There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.
Confucius551–479 BCAnalects, Chapter XVII, Book XVII, Chapter VIII.
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A scholar who loves comfort is not worthy of the name.
Confucius551–479 BCAnalects, Chapter XIV
When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them.
Confucius551–479 BCAnalects, Chapter VII
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933From ‘Address at Holy Cross’ (25 June 1919), published in Have Faith In Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages (2nd Ed.), Coolidge, Houghton Mifflin, p. 231.
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