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"I learn by doing....the same thing over and over and over again countless times."
"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."
"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"."
"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."
"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."
"Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all. It isn't the tunnel we pass through that matters, it's what emerges on the other side."
"He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind."
"On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!"
Explore more quotes by James Madison
"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war."
"Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense."
"It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."
"The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries."
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."
"The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world."
"As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights."
"The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right."
"Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere."
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