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One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.
There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.
Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map.
Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.
We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.
My choice of learning pharmacy was driven by my interests, curiosity, and a desire to seek new medicines for patients.
Every day we live is a priceless gift of God, loaded with possibilities to learn something new, to gain fresh insights.
The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.
Life is the path you beat while you walk it It's the walking that beats the path It is not the path that makes the walk
He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.
If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.
Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that never was before and never will be again.
Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.
In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.
If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.
Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.
[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.
REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.
We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I'd still land on my feet.
The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.
Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.
The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.
I don't sing a song unless I feel it. The song don't tug at my heart, I pass on it. I have to believe in what I'm doing.
The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.
Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know.
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!
Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
One thing you learn from surfing is how to operate in the present. It's really what the surfing experience is all about.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.
We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.
The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.
It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.
We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.
The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.
It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both.
I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.
For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.
It's objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last.