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Sandi's Collection of Quotes
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
--Anatole France
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
--Elbert Hubbard
Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
--John Dewey
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
--Theodore Roosevelt
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Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Humphrey Davy
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
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Language is a wonderful thing. It can be used to express thoughts, to conceal thoughts, but more often, to replace thinking.
Kelly Fordyce
The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.
Felelon
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Herbert Spencer
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Lily Tomlin
A witty saying proves nothing
Voltaire
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
Benjamin Whorf
Conversation is the slowest form of human communication.
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