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“As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.”

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Author:Arthur Keith

“All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.”

Writing Sports Education Learning Greater Goes On Basketball Grades Sixth Grade Greater Things

Author:Bobby Knight

“In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.”

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Book:Martha Quest: A Complete Novel

Source: Martha Quest: A Complete Novel

“The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.”

Spiritual Knowledge Learning Greater Ignorance Management Atheist Ignorant Dogmatism

Author:William Osler

“Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.”

“In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him... instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.”

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Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“There is no comfort in change But also no learning in the Steady drone of peace. There will be no greater sorrow Than watching you go - Except for watching you grow old And tired here - Clarity awaits Elsewhere”

Grows Peace Learning Greater Sorrow Comfort Tired Clarity Steady Elsewhere Drones

Author:S. D. Perry

“When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a power much greater than our own takes over, and it does a much better job than we could have done. We learn to trust that the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstances of our relatively little lives.”

“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.”

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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

“Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you can receive no greater flattery than to have a gardener of equal intelligence stand before your plant and ask, "What is that?"”

Trying Funny Asks Grows Education Learning Greater Equal Ordinary Garden Plant Educational Neighbor Flattery Gardener

Author:Richardson Wright

“Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a doorway opening onto greater depth of understanding, actions that will take us into being more fully alive.”

Action Understanding Learning Greater Alive Teaching Projects Depth Opening Doorways Good Questions

Book:The Answer to how is Yes: Acting on what Matters

Source: The Answer to how is Yes: Acting on what Matters

“...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every successful software tool that I encounter. During the past decade I was surprised to learn that the writing of programs for TeX and Metafont proved to be much more difficult than all the other things I had done (like proving theorems or writing books). The creation of good software demand a significiantly higher standard of accuracy than those other things do, and it requires a longer attention span than other intellectual tasks.”

“The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.”

Source: Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety