Quote by Victor Hugo
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. - Vic

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. – Victor Hugo

Other quotes by Victor Hugo

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself. – Victor Hugo

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Men
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor – Victor Hugo

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Idleness
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Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve. – Michael Gove

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Education

I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise. – Susan Orlean

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Education

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Education

As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didnt have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didnt keep up with their promise. Education didnt prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas. – Julian Bond

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Education

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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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I dont know anything about music. In my line you dont have to. – Elvis Presley

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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire — in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom? – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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You dont pay taxes – they take taxes. – Chris Rock

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