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You understand how much you know about a subject the moment you give explanations to someone who doesn't know anything about it.

You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.

You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever?

You will be doing your students a much greater service by reducing the amount of material that you are covering and actually ensuring that students are learning it, rather than making sure that you are ticking off everyone checkpoint in your ideal syllabus. Learning comes from practice, and you have to help and teach your students to practice just as you help and team them the basic knowledge and skills of your discipline.

You will find the reality of life by reading.

You will have believed, and have not hearkened unto me, to walk between the most subtle I walk because I had the love of my daily account of the journey

You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education.

You will not know the purpose of life until you imagine a better one for someone else; You will not know the purpose of money until you work for someone else; You will not know the value of freedom until someone takes it away from you; You will not see until blindness keeps you hurt; You will not understand until ignorance causes you frustration; You will not be religious until you realize how God's laws are independent of His conscience.

Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.

Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war, it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.

A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything you do in the arts enriches you.

Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends.

After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it], we physicists learned that we have to sing for our supper. ... The Cold War is over. You can't simply say "Russia!" to Congress, and they whip out their checkbook and say, "How much?" We have to tell the people why this atom-smasher is going to benefit their lives.

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

A goal of education is. to assist growth toward greater complexity and integration and to assist in the process of self-organization - to modify individuals capacity to modify themselves.

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly analyze the head, the heart, the reason, the will, the passions, the senses, the sentiments, and all those subdivisions of we know not what ; and yet, unfortunately, he knows nothing of man... He views man as he does colours in Sir Isaac Newton's prism, where only the capital ones are seen; but an experienced dyer knows all their various shades and gradations, together with the result of their several mixtures.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again that "E is dense in E" does not mean the same thing as "E is dense in itself".

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

All good activities which encourage people to learn how to live with one another pleasantly and to develop a sense of humor improve living.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.

All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker.

All of life is a constant education.

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

All teachers are good for someone. There are some teachers out there who I cannot stand, for whatever reason. I cannot even bear the sound of one teacher's voice. Yet they are wonderful teachers for other people. They just are not for me.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.