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taste buzz modesty
I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz. Alfred Nobel
teacher nature heart
Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.
transition
We are the transition from one education to the other. Alfred Rosenberg
thinking knowing too-much
Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton , I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry. Alfred North Whitehead
term
The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many.
two house-guests forget
I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.
thinking ideas vacuums
A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.
two impossible assumption
"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change.
teacher details mastery
All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.
type rescue preoccupation
I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.
two different theory
To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.
truth heaven may
Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
tragedy tvs youth
Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.
today india ancient
The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.
teaching ideas numbers
The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.
thinking speech speak
Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.
teach subjects
Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.
time tragedy definitions
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
truth interesting important
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
teaching causes
In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.
truth half whole
There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.
talking affair love-affair
When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair. Alfred Kazin
tonight ugly company
You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company? Alfred Jarry
thinking suffering might
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
truth whatever-you-say
Whatever you say about something, it is not. Alfred Korzybski
thinking mind different
Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.
two-nations discovery agreement
It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification - the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life.
thinking seems
I think therefore I seem to be.
two negative isolation
Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.
two important maps
Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.
truth mind boundless
This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse. Alfred Lord Tennyson
trust feelings trust-me
Trust me not at all, or all in all.
taken past portions
All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.