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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.

When teaching a rapidly changing technology, perspective is more important than content.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

When we look at external things, we can usually distinguish those that are useful and valuable from those that are not. We must learn to look at our mind in the same way.

When you act like a teacher, it's usually because you're afraid to be the student.

When you have learned how to decide with God all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing. There is no effort and you will be led as gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer.

Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it.

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was called cheating. The curriculum sent the clear message to me that learning was a highly individualistic, almost secretive, endeavor. My working class experience...was disparaged.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

While we teach, we learn.

While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.

Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote. Who too deep for his hearers still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining: Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.

Whiners usually play alone.

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.

Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?

Winning is not everything - but making the effort to win was... If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.

Winning and losing aren't all they're cracked up to be, but the trip to the destination is.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.

Words are the only things that last for ever.

Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where the explicit curriculum is confined to mathematical results; how to do mathematics is something the student must absorb by osmosis, so to speak. One reason for preferring symbol-manipulating, calculating arguments is that their design is much better teachable than the design of verbal/pictorial arguments. Large-scale introduction of courses on such calculational methodology, however, would encounter unsurmoutable political problems.

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.

You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

You can either keep peddling, get off the bike or fall over.

You all have learned reliance On the sacred teachings of Science, So I hope, through life, you will never decline In spite of philistine Defiance To do what all good scientists do. Experiment. Make it your motto day and night. Experiment. And it will lead you to the light.

You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.

You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.

You can only get good at Chess if you love the game