Abraham Flexner on compliment
Abraham Flexner26 quotes · See all“You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.”
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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
Abraham FlexnerAbraham Flexner We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
Abraham FlexnerAbraham Flexner As to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex
Abraham FlexnerAbraham Flexner Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
Abraham FlexnerAbraham Flexner At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
Abraham FlexnerAbraham Flexner The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.
Abraham FlexnerAbraham Flexner We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions .
Abraham FlexnerAbraham Flexner The more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest
Abraham FlexnerAbraham Flexner The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history.
Abraham FlexnerAbraham Flexner We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound
Abraham FlexnerAbraham Flexner Unintelligence could go no further! … In Great Britain, the situation is similar. … Until the figures are reversed, … nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.
Abraham FlexnerAbraham Flexner Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application
Abraham FlexnerAbraham Flexner The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
Abraham FlexnerAbraham Flexner The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
Abraham FlexnerAbraham Flexner The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
Abraham FlexnerAbraham Flexner Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
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A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.
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