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experience Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gilbert K. Chesterton | experience

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

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education Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gilbert K. Chesterton | education

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

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education Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gilbert K. Chesterton | education

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

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education Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gilbert K. Chesterton | education

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

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education Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gilbert K. Chesterton | education

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

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education Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gilbert K. Chesterton | education

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

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courage Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gilbert K. Chesterton | courage

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

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courage Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gilbert K. Chesterton | courage

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton | change

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton | best

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

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