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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

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People think of education as something that they can finish. And what’s more, when they finish, it’s a rite of passage. You’re finished with school. Y...more

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselve...more

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[What’s exciting is] the actual process of broadening yourself, of knowing there’s now a little extra facet of the universe you know about and can thi...more

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Many years later he looked through one of my books and said, "How did you learn all this, Isaac?""From you, Pappa", I said."From me? I don't know any ...more

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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

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Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

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Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

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The work of each individual contributes to a totality, and so becomes an undying part of the totality. That totality of human lives, past and present ...more