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The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not animals…. There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer

The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.

The ego is frightened by death, because ego is part of the incarnation and ends with it. That is why we learn to identify with our soul, as the soul continues after death. For the soul, death is just another moment.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.

The essence of education is the education of the body.

The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.

The final mystery is oneself.

The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.

The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.

The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].

The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.

The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.

The future is won or lost in the war of ideas.

The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work

The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.

The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance.

The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

The human body is river of intelligence, energy and information that is constantly renewing itself in every second of its existence.

The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.

The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading.

The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.

The heart is as important as the head in learning

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is one of the very few human activities-perhaps the only one-in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected. This is why we can say that, in science, we often learn from our mistakes, and why we can speak clearly and sensibly about making progress there. In most other fields of human endeavour there is change, but rarely progress ... And in most fields we do not even know how to evaluate change.

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. Sure, any given feature list can be implemented, given enough coding time. But in addition to coming out late, you will usually wind up with a codebase that is so fragile that new ideas that should be dead-simple wind up taking longer and longer to work into the tangled existing web. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn't.