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"The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!"
"Today I can joyfully say that one of the best undertakings I have ever made was to study the subject of responsibility."
"Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom."
"Teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke."
"Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons)."
"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!"
"More faults are created than cured by professional teachers."
Explore more quotes by Will Durant
"For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give 'significant form' to the chaos of experience?"
"But now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak."
"There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand."
"The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers."
"But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy, and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts."
"Religion arises not out of sacerdotal invention or chicanery, but out of the persistent wonder, fear, insecurity, hopefulness and loneliness of man."
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