"Skill to do comes of doing."
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"An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas."
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"He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds."
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"We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state."
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"Excellence is the new forever."
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"In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom."
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"Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood."
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"If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you."
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"You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame."
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"Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away."
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"When the problem [quantum chromodynamics] is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about the great way it was done. But it's simple -it will all be by imagination, and persistence."
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"When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to compromise dark matter in the universe, Feynmann snapped, "Why do you want to know his bias? Form your own bias!""
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"Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!"
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"Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know."
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"(Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderlinessand he would not be a German if he had not placed all his hopes of developing this inner orderliness into education. Education is the secret of life for him as for every German: studying, learning a lot from books, sitting in lectures, keeping notebooks, listening intently to professors."
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"Incidentally, when we're faced with a "prove or disprove," we're usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two reasons: A disproof is potentially easier (we need just one counterexample); and nitpicking arouses our creative juices. Even if the given assertion is true, our search for a counterexample often leads to a proof, as soon as we see why a counterexample is impossible. Besides, it's healthy to be skeptical."
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"If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit-and-run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light on the dugout camera."
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"If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse."
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"Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way."
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