"Education is helping the child realise his potentialities."
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"Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it."
"If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events."
"Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master."
"The more I study the wealthy.. in an effort to learn how to help more people around the world become one of them.. I'm stunned by how many people are actually not rich."
"I learned early on that I could get a lot of attention by singing and writing little songs, so it was like throwing nuts to a monkey... I just couldn't get enough."
"I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret; The code of night tapped on my tongue; What had been one was many sounding minded."
"The master said, 'Quietly to store up knowledge in my mind, to learn without flagging, to teach without growing weary, these present me with no difficulties.'"
"Whiners usually play alone."
"Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it."
"We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code."
"You've got to win in sports - that's talent - but you've also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience."
"Example is leadership."
"Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom."
"By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race."
"All learning is derived from things previously known."
"Education begins at the level of the learner."
"Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude."
"When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
"And simple truth miscalled simplicity"