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A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.

Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.

Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

Be a harsh critic of your own wins.

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The geniuses of the computer field, on the the other hand, are the people with the keenest aesthetic senses, the ones who are capable of creating beauty. Beauty is decisive at every level: the most important interfaces, the most important programming languages, the winning algorithms are the beautiful ones.

Before an individual can be saved, he must first learn that he cannot save himself.

Believing in the Tooth Fairy is easier than trying to figure out how else the money gets under your pillow.

Be light. Smile. Drop. Learn the tendency to drop and smile and move through.

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.

But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest desire to learn.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values and deliberately to choose the lower ones: to know that, however much these values may differ with different people at different stages of spiritual growth, for one's self there must be no compromise with that which one knows to be the lower value.

Buddhism doesn't promise to fulfill our desires. Instead it says, 'You feel unfulfilled? That's okay. That's normal. Everybody feels unfulfilled. You will always feel unfulfilled. There is no problem with feeling unfulfilled. In fact, if you learn to see it the right way, that very lack of fulfillment is the greatest thing you can ever experience.' This is the realistic outlook.

But let me say this about learning experiences: they're weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience is generally something else.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.

But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach".

But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.

By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.

By ignorance the truth is known.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

But there is one thing most companies struggle to standardize, and ironically, it's the most important part of our efforts to gain and sustain results. It is leadership.

Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Change no one. Change nothing. React to no one, react to nothing. Do not live in the past and do not, worry about the future. Stay in the eternal now, where all is well. After all you are me and I am you. There's no difference. Do not react to the world. Do not even react to your own body. Do not even react to your own thoughts. Learn to become the witness. Learn to be quiet.

Chess can help a child develop logical thinking, decision making, reasoning, and pattern recognition skills, which in turn can help math and verbal skills.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble

Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.

Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.

Children share with geniuses an open, inquiring, uninhibited quality of mind.

Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation, pleasure, distress and delight. They are whole children responding in a total way, and what they feel is a constant factor that can be constructive or destructive in any learning situation.

Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.

Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.

Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.

Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve inherently complex problems, which often do require complex mechanisms. However, this should not diminish our desire for elegant solutions, which convince by their clarity and effectiveness. Simple, elegant solutions are more effective, but they are harder to find than complex ones, and they require more time, which we too often believe to be unaffordable

Confidence is simply that quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face.

Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.