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There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them, and that's not training them and keeping them

There is one very good reason to learn programming, but it has nothing to do with preparing for high-tech careers or with making sure one is computer literate in order to avoid being cynically manipulated by the computers of the future. The real value of learning to program can only be understood if we look at learning to program as an exercise of the intellect, as a kind of modern-day Latin that we learn to sharpen our minds.

There is only one way to learn... It's through action.

There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.

There is something essential about joining together with other believers to worship, to sing, to pray, to learn of God's will for us, and to acknowledge his goodness to us. He has commanded that this should be so.

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

There’s a bit of hidden magic in every mistake. The magic is called learning.

There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

There's more learning than is taught in books.

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

The saying "He who teaches others, teaches himself" is very true, not only because constant repetition impresses a fact indelibly on the mind, but because the process of teaching itself gives deeper insight into the subject taught.

The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present.

The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in every man. But he has to learn, first, to let it in and, second, how to do so. The first beginning of this is to remember. The second is to recognize the inward pull. For the rest, the stillness itself will guide and lead him to itself.

The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

The structure of a software system provides the ecology in which code is born, matures, and dies. A well-designed habitat allows for the successful evolution of all the components needed in a software system.

The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.

The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do before. I say do and not know, because knowledge that doesn't lead to doing something new or doing something better is not knowledge at all.

The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.

The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.

The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.

The teacher can always tell when you did your homework on the bus.

The teacher has more power than the Minister.

The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for your brain. Of course it is necessary to take some food for your brain, but it is more important to be yourself by practicing the right way of life.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.

The truth is you can acquire any quality you want by acting as though you already have it.

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

The universe does not judge us; it only provides consequences and lessons and opportunities to balance and learn through the law of cause and effect. Compassion is the recognition that we are each doing the best we can within the limits of our current beliefs and capacities.

The ultimate goal of theology isn't knowledge, but worship. If our learning and knowledge of God do not lead to the joyful praise of God, we have failed. We learn only that we might laud, which is to say that theology without doxology is idolatry. The only theology worth studying is a theology that can be sung!

The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.

The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.

The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.

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

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

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.

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.