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"I learn by doing....the same thing over and over and over again countless times."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"To make one mistake, and then fix it. It shows, a sign that you have understood the lesson."
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Personal Development
"On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!"
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Personal Development
"Mistakes focus our minds on specific details. They weed out truths and afford us goals, bringing straight to our attention lessons to be learned. Mistakes are not meant to make us failures; they are meant to make us wise."
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Personal Development
"People must make make risks, must make mess in their life's. They must make make mistakes, they must think - This is the part of the proccess "learning"!"
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Personal Development
"Every mistake committed is a learning opportunity."
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Personal Development
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"The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more."
Learning
"It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it."
Desire
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."
Politics
"It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world."
Wisdom
"I have gained this by philosophy. I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law."
Philosophy
"Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last."
Wisdom
"The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of the best thing in us."
Happiness
"Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely."
Democracy
"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."
Wisdom
"For there are two reasons why human beings face danger calmly: they may have no experience of it, or they may have means to deal with it: thus when in danger at sea people may feel confident about what will happen either because they have no experience of bad weather, or because their experience gives them the means of dealing with it."
Risk
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