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

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

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

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

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

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

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

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 men by nature desire knowledge.

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

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

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

All of life is a constant education.

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

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

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

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

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.

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.

Always be eager to learn, no matter how successful you might already be. In the Millionaires' Club, we sometimes invite a billionaire to come talk to us. He says, 'You're doing okay, but come on. How about if you really poured it on!'

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

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.

Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you can receive no greater flattery than to have a gardener of equal intelligence stand before your plant and ask, "What is that?

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

American business men must learn human nature to the point of accepting as necessary the Rabble Rouser of the Right. . . . To get fast action somebody must stir millions to genuine anger over conditions which are adversely affecting their lives.

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes. The '[holding] the eel of science by the tail' allusion was used in 1728 by Alexander Pope (q.v.).

A master lives in the world of transformation, not the world of loss and gain.

A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its use. If the tool is a programming language this influence is, whether we like it or not, an influence on our thinking habits.... A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.