“The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure…”

— Italo Calvino

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”

— G. K. Chesterton

“Have courage to use your own understanding!”

— Immanuel Kant

“The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.”

— Aristotle

“Strive, and hold cheap the strain; / Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!”

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