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***** EDUCATION QUOTES *****
~ To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life. - Sir Thomas More
~ Everything has its limit; iron ore cannot be educated into gold. - Mark Twain
***** QUOTES ON TRUSTING YOUR INSTINCTS *****
~ Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. - Dr. Joyce Brothers
~ When the facts change, I change my mind. - John Keynes
~ If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart. - Marilyn vos Savant
~ Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. - Marie Curie
~ When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. - William James
~ It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. - Walt Disney
~ Choices are the hinges of destiny. - Pythagora
~ Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong. - Lord Mansfield
***** QUOTES ON SELF-CULTIVATION *****
~ Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. - Malcolm S. Forbes
~ We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds. - Adam Clayton Powell
~ The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. - Henry Ford
~ Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which. - Gary Ryan Blair
~ The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man. - Cicero
~ Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities. - John Ruskin
***** QUOTES ABOUT THE FINE ARTS *****
~ Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler
~ A good book should leave you slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. - William Styron
~ Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Berthold Auerbach
~ Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso
~ When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue, you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night, there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. - Christopher Morley
~ Without music life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Nietzsche
~ What art offers is space, a certain breathing room for the spirit. - John Updike
~ Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot
~ Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
~ There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
~ You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. - Paul Sweeney
~ Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. - Henry Ward Beecher
~ Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. - Jean-Luc Godard
~ I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. - E.M. Forster
~ Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine
