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"Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness."
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"The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all."
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"Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness."
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Personal Development
"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing."
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"It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body."
Education
"In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact."
Work
"In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them."
Wisdom
"I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young."
History
"Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth."
Science
"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact."
Science
"If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker."
Work
"The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect."
Happiness
"Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely."
Money
"I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men."
Happiness
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