"The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
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"It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas"
"Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil."
"To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold."
"Let the bird sing without deciphering the song."
"The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want."
"There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything."
"As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so young, we can be excused all sorts of folly and can permit ourselves the hope that someday, as a species, we will begin to grow up."
"Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians."
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way."
"I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet."
"Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time."
"Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it."
"Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it."
"As you think, so shall you become."
"Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain."
"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained."
"Language is the dress of thought."
"As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality."
"Always be eager to learn, no matter how successful you might already be. In the Millionaires' Club, we sometimes invite a billionaire to come talk to us. He says, 'You're doing okay, but come on. How about if you really poured it on!'"