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"Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child's coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself."
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"School was my solace, and studying let me escape, allowing me to live a thousand vicarious lives."
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"I learn by doing....the same thing over and over and over again countless times."
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"The moment a person feels he has nothing left to learn is the moment life prepares to hit him hard enough to correct such ignorance."
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"I should never be able to fulfill what is,I understand, the first duty of a lecturer-to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever"."
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"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."
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"Explain it to me."But I couldn't. I'd had to learn it my own way, and so had my mother. Jason would eventually, as well. No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other side and understood., If you didn't, you kept getting thrust back, retracing those steps, until you finally got it right."
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"All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world."
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"Curiosity killed the cat, but not before teaching her that honey bees are not sweet, tweeting birds are slow to react, mice can serve as both toys and food, big dogs like to snuggle, falling isn't flying, cream drips from lazy cows, water should be avoided at all costs, baths don't require getting wet, kindness and cruelty often fall from the same hand, and engines remain comfortably warm long after the motor dies."
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"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
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"Learn always and wherever possible, knowing that you'll never learneverything."
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"I've noticed...that whenever a man is asked to be realistic he is being asked to betray something in which he believes. It is the favorite argument of those who believe that only the end matters, not the means."
Philosophy
"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on."
Literature
"It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead."
Morality
"You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it."
Nature
"I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime. ... I would make something happen."
Motivation
"What a man wants to do he generally can do if he wants to badly enough."
Motivation
"Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware."
Psychology
"One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school the little while I went I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me but I always got up."
Motivation
"One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives."
Life
"The terms we use for what is considered supernatural are woefully inadequate. Beyond such terms as ghost, specter, poltergeist, angel, devil, or spirit, might there not be something more our purposeful blindness has prevented us from understanding?We accept the fact that there may be other worlds out in space, but might there not be other worlds here? Other worlds, in other dimensions, coexistent with this? If there are other worlds parallel to ours, are all the doors closed? Or does one, here or there, stand ajar?"
Philosophy
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