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“I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.”

Ifs Knows Love Giving Should Wells I Can Enough Evil Learning Sincere Vengeance Evil Man Good Against Evil Lesser Evil

Book:Gandhi on Non-violence

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“It is good to live and learn.”

Life Evil Learning Live And Learn

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil.”

Evil Learning Unlearn

Author:Antisthenes

“Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.”

Men Evil Learning Bears Quantity Evil Things

Author:Wilfred Bion

“I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.”

Knows Done Evil Politics Learning Return Israel

Author:W. H. Auden

“I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world. --Terri Mitchell”

World Inspirational Littles Guy Fighting Evil Bits Boys Learning Little Bit Captains Bad Guys Good Guy Bad Boy Parameters Guidelines

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.”

Trying Firsts Children School Evil Differences Teach Learning Distinction Good And Evil

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Able Evil Learning Teaching Strength Criticism Educational Acquire Remove Criticism Of Others Criticism And Praise

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.”

Humans Kind Might Science Purpose Suffering Evil Nature Natural Learning Lessons Survival Hardest Indifferent Lacking Callous

Book:River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

Source: River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.”

Ifs Evil Learning Greater Ignorance Terrible Training All Things Misfortunes Plato Cleverness Excessiveness

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.”

Should Evil Forget Learning Roots Programming Efficiency Programmers Computer Programming Computer Science Programming Languages Premature Computer Language Computer Programmers Computer Software Optimization Debugging

Author:Donald Knuth

“Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”