Charles William Eliot Quotes
The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.
Quotes to Explore
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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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How long can this situation last and be tolerated? When Imam Ali, Commander of the Faithful, heard that an anklet was forcefully removed from the feet of a Jewish woman by the invaders in one of the frontier cities under his rule, he said, 'If a man dies from grief because of this act, he should not be reprimanded.'
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I was pretty sure I lacked the wisdom to be the commencement speaker, but after stewing over the idea for about 48 hours, I decided that if the senior class at the University of Wisconsin wants me to come speak, I'll do whatever they ask me. I love that school.
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I picked up a harmonica and taught myself.
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I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.
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I can't say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win.
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The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.
