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«What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful»

«When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.»

«When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes!»

«What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it»

«When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years later, I learned about breakfast meetings. These are America's three great contributions to civilization.»

«Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire planet weighs a little more; and when you stamp your foot, the earth moves slightly off its course. Whenever you laugh, gladness spreads like the ripples in a pond; and whenever you're sad, no one anywhere can be really happy. And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.»

«We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.»

«When a child is learning to write, it is extremely easy for it to hold the pen wrongly, and to form its letters incorrectly, but it is painfully difficult to hold the pen and to write properly; and this because of the child's ignorance of the art of writing, which can only be dispelled by persistent effort and practice, until at last, it becomes natural and easy to hold the pen properly, and to write correctly, and difficult, as well as altogether unnecessary, to do the wrong thing. It is the same in the vital things of mind and life.»

«We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.»

«When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something»