Words of Wisdom-119: Ingersoll

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense - Robert Green Ingersoll

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Full Text of Ingersollia: Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Ingersoll from Project Gutenberg:
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Words of Wisdom-118:

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one - Malcolm Forbes, Publisher of Forbes magazine

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Words of Wisdom-117: Will Durant

Education is the transmission of civilization - Will Durant

Words of Wisdom-116: Gandhiji

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisites for acquiring learning of any kind - Gandhiji

Words of Wisdom-115:

A student is he who continuously uses his faculty of observation, puts two and two together and carves out for himself a path in life – Gandhiji

Words of Wisdom-114:

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire - William Butler Yeats

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats

Works of Yeats from Project Gutenberg:

• Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (English) (as Author)
• The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays (English) (as Contributor)
• A Book of Irish Verse
  Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes
  by W. B. Yeats (English) (as Author)
• The Celtic Twilight (English) (as Author)
• The Countess Cathleen (English) (as Author)
• The Cutting of an Agate (English) (as Author)
• Discoveries
  A Volume of Essays (English) (as Author)
• Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (English) (as Author)
• Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (English) (as Editor)
• Four Years (English) (as Author)
• Gods and Fighting Men
  The story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland, arranged and put into English by Lady Gregory (English) (as Author of introduction, etc.)
• The Green Helmet and Other Poems (English) (as Author)
• The Hour Glass (English) (as Author)
• Ideas of Good and Evil (English) (as Author)
• In The Seven Woods
  Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age (English) (as Author)
• Irish Fairy Tales (English) (as Editor)
• The Land of Heart's Desire (English) (as Author)
• The Land of Heart's Desire (English) (as Author)
• Mosada
  A dramatic poem (English) (as Author)
• Per Amica Silentia Lunae (English) (as Author)
• Poems (English) (as Author)
• Responsibilities
  and other poems (English) (as Author)
• Reveries over Childhood and Youth (English) (as Author)
• Rosa Alchemica (English) (as Author)
• The Secret Rose (English) (as Author)
• Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany (English) (as Editor)
• Seven Poems and a Fragment (English) (as Author)
• Sixteen Poems (English) (as Compiler)
• Stories of Red Hanrahan (English) (as Author)
• Synge and the Ireland of His Time (English) (as Author)
• The Trembling of the Veil (English) (as Author)
• Two plays for dancers (English) (as Author)
• The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays (English) (as Author)
• Where There is Nothing
  Being Volume I of Plays for an Irish Theatre (English) (as Author)
• The Wild Swans at Coole (English) (as Author)
• The Wind Among the Reeds (English) (as Author)

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Words of Wisdom-113:

Education is all a matter of building bridges - Ralph Ellison, American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer

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http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50-10027

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Words of Wisdom-112: Will Durant

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance - Will Durant, American writer, historian and philosopher

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Durant

About Will Durant's list of One Hundred Best Books for an Education:
http://cloudcraft.com/knowledge/

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Words of Wisdom-111: Edward Everett

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army - Edward Everett, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, the 15th Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, United States Secretary of State and  President of Harvard Univeristy.

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Words of Wisdom-110: Anthony J. D'Angelo

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow - Anthony J. D'Angelo