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• Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Real, Men, Two

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.126, Book Tree

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• A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Thinking, Errors, Ideas

  Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.15

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• Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I’ll teach you differences'. ... 'You’d be surprised' wouldn’t be a bad motto either.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Kings, Book, Thinking

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• There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. The teach the truth by living it.

  James A. Garfield

  Loyalty, Running, Kindness

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• Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.

  Jane Roberts

  Soul, Suffering, Purpose

  Seth (Spirit), Jane Roberts, Robert F. Butts (1972). “Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul”, p.302, New World Library

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• What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

  A. S. Byatt

  Change, Book, People

  FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Jan 14, 2011

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• She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim.

  Marilyn French

  Swim

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• This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fall, Bird, Heaviness

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

  Confucius

  Education, Kindness, Men

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• A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

  William Faulkner

  Teaching, Writing, Love And Honor

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, 10 Dec. 1950

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• When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Reason, Should, Strikes

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.

  W. H. Auden

  Healing, Heart, Night

  Another Time (1940) "In Memory of W. B. Yeats"

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• You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!

  C. S. Lewis

  Remember You, Remembers You, Eggs

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.41, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.

  C. S. Lewis

  Views, Hands, Serious

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.103, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present. He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many lands. And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Teacher, Writing, School

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.140, Macmillan

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• Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.89, Harvard University Press

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• Taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Taught

  "El amor en los tiempos del colera (Love in the Time of Cholera)". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (p. 176), 1988.

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• I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Education, Motivation, Fear

  "Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine". Book by Phillipe Mather, p. 46, 2013.

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• I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a big brand on his forehead to warn us away. Criminals sit next to us on the bus. They pack our groceries and cash our paychecks for us and teach our children. They look no different from you or me. And that's why they get away with it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Thug, Leather Jackets

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Patience, Acceptance

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

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• I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision..." They will believe if one says, "It was told me on a tablet of hidden gold..." But, if one says, "History teaches," then they will not believe.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Believe, Men, Vision

  Sheri S. Tepper (2013). “King's Blood Four”, p.47, Hachette UK

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• In contrast to the institutions of the world, which teach us to KNOW something, the gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to BECOME something...The gospel of Jesus Christ is the plan by which we can become what children of god are supposed to become...Charity is something one becomes.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Jesus, Children, Challenges

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• “Cherie, did the table do something I did not see or were you just attempting to teach it a lesson?” “I was imagining it was Evor.” “Strange, they do not greatly resemble each other.” “I have a good imagination.” “In that case, I do not suppose you are imagining I'm Brad Pitt?”

  Alexandra Ivy

  Imagination, Tables, Lessons

  "When Darkness Comes".

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• I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.

  J. K. Rowling

  Bottles, Glory, Fame

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• Teach your heart that this is destiny

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Destiny

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.276, Bloomsbury Publishing

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