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There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them. ↗

— Jane Austen

#defects #dislike #education #hatred #misunderstanding

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read. ↗

— John Adams

#lifelong-learning #reading #education

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write. ↗

— Roy Peter Clark

#reading #writing #education

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#historical-fiction #history #reading #education

If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. 'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. ↗

— Russell Page

#green-thumb #growth #understanding #verdant #education

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#education #knowledge #life-lessons #understanding #education

Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat Ali began the first classes by reading to them from poetry and religious texts. "Reading, literature, and spirituality are good for the soul," he told them. "So we will start with these studies. ↗

— Greg Mortenson

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I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#effort #frustration #respect #understanding-others #education