"Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat."
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"The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach"
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"Be light. Smile. Drop. Learn the tendency to drop and smile and move through."
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"To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty."
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"It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding."
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"There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them, and that's not training them and keeping them"
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"No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy."
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"Ideas are, in truth, force."
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"As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain."
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"The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference."
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"Never let formal education get in the way of your learning."
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"I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator."
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"Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced."
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"I really had no religious upbringing, which is unusual. But I think it saved me, because when I found the theory that I wanted to follow, I did not have anything to unlearn."
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"One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice."
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"I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline."
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"Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound."
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"School is not the end but only the beginning of an education."
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"We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free."
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"There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves."
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