To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
ERIC HOFFERWe are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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