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He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, the worst. What is the right use? What is the end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Colleges… can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are the best type of the influence of the past… The theory of books is noble.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.”
Quote by -Swami Vivekananda
“Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.”
Quote by -Swami Vivekananda
“Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.”
Quote by -Swami Vivekananda
“All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.”
Quote by -Swami Vivekananda
“The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.”
Quote by -William James