“Education is one of the blessings of life — and one of its necessities.”

Nobel Peace Prize Lecture (December 10, 2014)

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Pakistani children's education activist 1997

Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer

“Blessed are those who never entrust their life to no one.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid.
Original: Benditos os que não confiam a vida a ninguém.
Source: The Book of Disquiet

“If the life of one girl changes through education, she changes three families – one, her own, second the in which she gets married into, and third the one she builds. This moves the nation on its path to progress.”

Vinod Gupta (1946) American businessman

Your Story, How this Indian-born American ensured his village in UP got the educational institutes it deserves, Shinjini, Chowdhury, September 3, 2018 https://yourstory.com/2018/09/vinod-gupta-up-education,

“There can be but one German Youth Movement, because there is but one way in which German youth can be educated and trained… This Reich stands, and is building itself up anew, upon its youth. And this Reich will hand over its youth to no one, but will take its education and its formation upon itself.”

Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party

Speech on May 1, 1937, quoted in John S. Conway, The Nazi Persecution of the Churches, 1933-45 (New York, NY, Basic Books, 1968), p. 178
1930s

“One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.”

Abraham Maslow book Motivation and Personality

Source: Motivation and Personality (1954), p. 255.

“In a detached person nothing merely temporal is born in possessiveness. His eyes are opened. He becomes fully aware and, receiving his blessed existence and life, is one with Him; for all things are here one in the He becomes fully aware and, receiving his blessed existence and life, is one with Him; for all things are here one in the One One.”

Henry Suso (1295–1366) Dominican friar and mystic

The Exemplar, The Life of the Servant

“If one prefers to have little with blessing, to have truth with concern, to suffer instead of exulting over imagined victories, then one presumably will not be disposed to praise the knowledge, as if what it bestows were at all proportionate to the trouble it causes, although one would not therefore deny that through its pain it educates a person, if he is honest enough to want to be educated rather than to be deceived, out of the multiplicity to seek the one, out of abundance to seek the one thing needful, as this is plainly and simply offered precisely according to the need for it.”

Sören Kierkegaard book Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses

Søren Kierkegaard, Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses, Hong p. 128-129
1840s, Upbuilding Discourses (1843-1844)

“To appreciate Christmas to the full, one must know how it feels to be deprived of its blessings”

Carlos P. Romulo (1899–1985) Filipino politician and diplomat

as quoted in the " Carlos P Romulo Speech 1949 President UN Assembly, Filipino http://mannaandquail.com/2012/07/09/carlos-p-romulo-speech-1949-president-un-assembly-filipino/" on mannaandquail.com

“In many cases one and the same thing is attracted by two strong forces, namely Necessity and Potency. Water falls in rain; the earth absorbs it from the necessity for moisture; and the sun evaporates it, not from necessity, but by its power.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.”

Baltasar Gracián (1601–1658) Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher

“Education is one of the blessings of life — and one of its necessities.”

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