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The young man who has the combination of the learning of books with the learning which comes of doing things with the hands need not worry about getting along in the world today, or at any time.

The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do so, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces.

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.

Think, think, think. It will hurt like hell at first, but you'll get used to it.

This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.

This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

This spontaneous emergence of order at critical points of instability, which is often referred to simply as "emergence," is one of the hallmarks of life. It has been recognized as the dynamic origin of development, learning, and evolution. In other words, creativity-the generation of new forms-is a key property of all living systems.

This (scanning project) is our chance to one-up the Greeks! It is really possible with the technology of today, not tomorrow. We can provide all the works of humankind to all the people of the world. It will be an achievement remembered for all time, like putting a man on the moon.

This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.

This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

Those, who are strongly wedded to what I shall call 'the classical theory', will fluctuate, I expect, between a belief that I am quite wrong and a belief that I am saying nothing new. It is for others to determine if either of these or the third alternative is right.

Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt; while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take the trouble to attend it are in no doubt at all.

Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership.

Those who say they understand Chess, understand nothing

Thou art an heyre to fayre lying, that is nothing, if thou be disinherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were if for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony.

Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

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.

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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 have great poets, there must be great audiences.

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