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"There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can, and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life."
"The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love."
"It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences."
"Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning."
"It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know."
"Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will."
"Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work."
"They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance."
"We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many a general reader-that is, the lay reader located outside the domain of science and scholarship-may regard the lowly footnote or the remote endnote or the bibliographic parenthesis as a dispensable nuisance, it can be argued that these are in truth central to the incentive system and an underlying sense of distributive justice that do much to energize the advancement of knowledge."
"By seeking and blundering we learn."
"If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes."
"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know."
"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."
"The doors of wisdom are never shut."
"Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown."
"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight."
"There’s a bit of hidden magic in every mistake. The magic is called learning."
"In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate."
"My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!"
