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- There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
- Alfred Korzybski (1879 - 1950)
- There are two ways to slide easily though life: To believe everything, or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
- Alfred Korzybski (1879 - 1950)
- I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
- Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
- Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.
- Gunnar Myrdal
- The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is; to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.
- Otto Kleppner
- Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality... for one very rich man, there must be at least five hundred poor.
- Adam Smith (1723 - 1790)
- There is no possible line of conduct which has art some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty.
- William Lecky
- There are many truths by which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the we disbelieve we call theories.
- Felix Cohen
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