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Richard Livingstone

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Richard Livingstone was an enigmatic figure active in the early 20th century. His specific profession and field remain unclear, and his life and achievements are not well-documented. However, his influence and contributions within his area of expertise are noteworthy.

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“Our danger is not too few, but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.”

Decision Danger Alternatives Puzzled

Author:Richard Livingstone

“Everyone has a vocation by which he earns his living, but he also has a vocation in an older sense of the word-the vocation to use his powers and live his life well.”

Wells Use Vocation

Author:Richard Livingstone

“There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may resent the labor of storing. But they sleep in the memory and awake in later years, illuminated by life and illuminating it.”

Years May Memories Sleep Greater Youth Labor Treasure Awake Prose Resent Great Poet Illuminating Great Poetry

Book:On Education

Source: On Education

“One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal.”

Thinking Character Moral Weakness Ideals Dues Idealism Inadequate Moral Failure Weakness Of Character

Book:On Education

Source: On Education

“There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.”

World Young Given Force Grows Education Company Creative Growing Up Virtue Habit Criticism Destruction Critics Prophet Live By Constructive Negation Beetles Burying World Life

Author:Richard Livingstone

“I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.”

Ifs Heart School Values Literature Doubt Great Literature

Book:On Education

Source: On Education

“If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.”

Ifs Children Ideas Done Use School Desire Acquire Desire For Knowledge

Book:On Education

Source: On Education

“Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.”

Common Education Theory Achievement

Book:On Education

Source: On Education

About the Author

Born: January 23, 1880
Died: December 26, 1960
Known for: Author
Quotes: 8

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