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[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. ↗

— Henry Adams

#education

I would much rather be considered wise than smart. But, I still think it is wise to get an education. ↗

— Destiny Booze

#smart #wisdom #education

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#education #knowledge #education

There are more good people than bad people, and overall there’s more that’s good in the world than there is that’s bad. We just need to hear about it, we just need to see it. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

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I can’t, Caro, it’s out of my hands now. But I promise it’s temporary. I just… after all this time… I wanted us to be able to spend more than a few hours together.” He stared at his hands. “I don’t know when I’ll see you again,” he mumbled. “I’ve already waited ten years. ↗

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

#sebastian-to-caroline #the-education-of-caroline #education

Sunday was a day when players could not dispatch their doubles. Instead, clones went to the garage, where they studied educational ... ↗

— J.M.K. Walkow

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We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#education #inspiration #knowledge #life #work

The whole game was about confidence, as it always was. Everything was fine—until it wasn't. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#education

Real education is a radical process. It thumps you on the head until everything you know makes no sense anymore. Then you run around picking up the pieces of your head and picking them back together. The pieces never go back together in the same way. ↗

— Debbie Millman

#open-mind #education

Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#destiny #education #fate #ignorance #self-determination