The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
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Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
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Liberty is one of the best of all sublunary advantages. I would willingly therefore communicate knowledge, without infringing, or with as little possible violence to, the volition and individual judgment of the person to be instructed.
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It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.
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Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
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My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
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