“Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

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“Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at our ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did, and never can, carry us beyond our own person, and it is by the imagination only that we can form...”

― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“Glory and curiosity are the scourges of the soul; the last prompts us to thrust our noses into everything, the other forbids us to leave anything doubtful and undecided.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration;— this may be called perfect virtue.”

― Confucius, Analects

“They were assured, of course, of the inerrable equality of death, but nobody wanted that kind of equality.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

“Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

“Love covers a multitude of sins, and of whom could you ask more freely than of him?”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what the Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

“The doctrine of interest rightly understood is not, then, new, but amongst the Americans of our time it finds universal acceptance: it has become popular there; you may trace it at the bottom of all their actions, you will remark it in all they say.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“But how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue, she could easily conjecture.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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