The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

—Denis Diderot

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Denis Diderot (; French: [dəni did(ə)ʁo]; 5 October 1713 – 31 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment.

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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

—Denis Diderot

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

—Denis Diderot

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

—Denis Diderot

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You have to make it happen.

—Denis Diderot

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Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

—Claiborne Pell

Education is the best provision for old age.

A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.

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You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

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