"To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know."
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"Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select-doctor, lawyer, merchant-chief, and yes, even beggar man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors."
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"Now, there are two ways to approach a subject that frightens you and makes you feel stupid: you can embrace it with humility and an open mind, or you can ridicule it mercilessly."
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"I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's."
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"The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions."
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"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote."
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"It is today that we create the world of the future."
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"We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all."
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"The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death."
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"What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement."
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"When you act like a teacher, it's usually because you're afraid to be the student."
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"If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were."
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"We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades."
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"Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me."
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"There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other."
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"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"
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"The least of the work of learning is done in classrooms."
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"If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar."
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"Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you can receive no greater flattery than to have a gardener of equal intelligence stand before your plant and ask, "What is that?""
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"You live and learn. Or you don't live long."
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