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The existence of such a government as ours for any length of time is a full proof of a general dissemination of knowledge and virtue throughout the whole body of the people.
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Every artist does something more than copy Nature; more comes out in his account than goes into the original experience.
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Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process.
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Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession.
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There is the standing danger that the material of formal instruction will be merely the subject matter of the schools, isolated from the subject matter of life-experience.
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In final account, then, not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates.
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To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.
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After listening to it in all kinds of winds, night and day, season after season, I think I could approximate to my position on the mountains by this pine-music alone.
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The whole world seems richer now that I have found this plant in so noble a landscape.
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The most respectful deference is due to doubts originating in pure patriotism and sustained by venerated authority.
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granting that we had both the will and the sense to choose our friends well, how few of us have the power! or, at least, how limited, for most, is the sphere of choice!
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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty.
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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that
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A provision of endless apparatus, a bustle of infinite inquiry and research, or even the mere mechanical labour of copying, may be employed, to evade and shuffle off real labour—the real labour of thinking.
Joshua Reynoldsverified·Discourse XII, in Fifteen Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy·December 10, 1784
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”
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We classify too much and enjoy too little.
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Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.
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It is not always recognized that the work itself is a great educator, and that acute cleverness in the line of work to which he is fitted comes to the worker.
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These possibilities of mental development are still further increased when the man makes his own records. This leads to closer attention, to more interest in the work, and to a realization of the man as to what the record really means, and what value it represents.
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Where the mind is tinctured with philosophy, there is no place for grief, anxiety, or superfluous vexations.
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he kept his mind at full stretch like a bow, and never gave in to old age by growing slack
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if it has in store any of what I may call the food of study and philosophy, nothing can be pleasanter than an old age of leisure