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Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.

Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.

Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

Thus men of more enlighten'd genius and more intrepid spirit must compose themselves to the risque of public censure, and the contempt of their jealous contemporaries, in order to lead ignorant and prejudic'd minds into more happy and successful methods.

Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.

To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something

To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

To buried merit rise the tardy bust.

Today's sensitive male has learned to share in open frank discussions about relationships like, "Where the hell did you get a crazy idea like that? You been reading Redbook again?

To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside the temporal so that we might enjoy the higher qualities of the spiritual. As we fast on that day we learn and better understand the needs of those who are less fortunate.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

To endeavor all one's days to fortify one's mind with learning and philosophy, is to spend so much in armor that one has nothing left to defend.

To ensure that your work is also a play, I recommend that you develop a personal mission statement. This will help you find what it is to enjoy so much that you lose track of time when you're doing it.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

To go faster you must slow down.

To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

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.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.

To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.

To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange enigmatic ways of the world which she will spend lifetime trying to learn and understand.

To live our lives fully, to work whole heartily, to refuse directly what we can't swallow, to accepts the mystery in all matters of meaning- this is the ultimate adventure.

Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

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.

To play the trumpet well, a musician can not let more than a few days pass without practicing.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that we usually only exchange one set of restrictions for another. The second set, however, is self-chosen, and therefore easier to accept.

To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end in itself. The importance of formal specifications must ultimately rest in their utility -in whether or not they are used to improve the quality of software or to reduce the cost of producing and maintaining software.

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down.

Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.

True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.

Trusting your intuition is like learning to ride a bike. Everything takes practice before it becomes second nature.

Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code.

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.