"Literary education is of no value, if..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.
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“The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.”
“Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.”
“The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.”
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“I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves." Another "I was raised to believe that excellence is the deterrent to racism and sexism. And that's how I operate my life." And another "It does not matter who you are or where you came from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.”
“It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.”
“Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.”
More on Character
“There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.”
“But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.”
“One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.”