Charles William Eliot Quotes
The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.
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Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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Doing the right thing has power.
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In the education of the American people, I am Recess.
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When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
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I've worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I'll think, 'Have you stopped learning?' They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again.
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I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
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There are all kinds of sources of our knowledge; but none has authority … The fundamental mistake made by the philosophical theory of the ultimate sources of our knowledge is that it does not distinguish clearly enough between questions of origin and questions of validity.
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
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Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.
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Why stick to just prose or just music or just newspaper or just video? Why not create new models for information that combine elements of them all?
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I think a woman's body is so much more sensual than a man's. I'm not saying strip off all your clothes, but there are certain photos I like people taking of me, where I'm comfortable. As long as it's tasteful, why not?
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The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.
