"It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained."
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"Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection."
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"Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know."
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"Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know."
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"Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."
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"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."
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"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
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"Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn."
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"I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience."
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"Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other."
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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
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"The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions."
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"Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire.""
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"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
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"To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in."
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"Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences."
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"What we want... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know; to have projects that they can get excited about and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated to find things out on their own."
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"Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true."
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"Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures. After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God."
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"I never learned from a man who agreed with me."
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