The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Education is the best provision for old age.
- Topic: Age, Education
- Location: Bryce Canyon National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.
Happiness is a quality of the soul, not a function of one's material circumstances.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly two be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
I remember my youth and the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth and all men.
Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.
Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.
The weight of this sad time we must obey; speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young, shall never see so much, nor live so long.
Age is not better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men.
The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart.
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.
There is no education like adversity.
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.
What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
