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“Some of the guys I played with .. didn't go around learning more about their instruments from an intellectual point of view. All they wanted was to play hot jazz, and the instrument was just a means. I'd imagine that a lot of them criticized me-said my technique was too good. Something like that. But I've always wanted to know what made music. How you do it, and why it sounds good. I always practiced, worked like hell.”

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Author:Benny Goodman

“Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.”

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Author:Newell Dwight Hillis

“My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!”

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Author:Anne Sullivan Macy

“Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.”

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Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals

Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals

“A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”

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Author:Alexander Pope

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”

“If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.”

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Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.”

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

Source: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.”

“Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.”

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Author:John Ray

“My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.”

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Author:Robert M. Hutchins

“Keep children as much as possible by themselves ... keep them from company, good or bad. ... It will be generally found that the most virtuous and the most intellectual, are those who have been brought up with few companions. ... in fact his mental resources may be considered entirely unknown and unexplored, who cannot spend his best and happiest hours alone.”

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Author:Jacob Abbott

“The best learners... often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.”

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Book:Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher

Source: Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher

“In Buddhism, both learning and practice are extremely important, and they must go hand in hand. Without knowledge, just to rely on faith, faith, and more faith is good but not sufficient. So the intellectual part must definitely be present. At the same time, strictly intellectual development without faith and practice, is also of no use. It is necessary to combine knowledge born from study with sincere practice in our daily lives. These two must go together.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.”

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Author:Bill Ayers

“Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.”

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Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation”

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Book:On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand

Source: On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand

“Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.”

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Author:Antonin Scalia

“Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.”

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Author:Russell Lynes

“A person who speaks cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart.”

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Author:Terry Carr

“Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.”

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Book:Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography

Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography

“The heart is as important as the head in learning”

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Author:K. Patricia Cross

“The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.”

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Book:A New England girlhood

Source: A New England girlhood

“We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.”

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Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.”

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Author:Richard B. Livingston

“Sometimes it's smart to be scared.”

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Author:Cynthia Lewis

“The teacher can always tell when you did your homework on the bus.”

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Author:Cynthia Lewis

“You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.”

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Author:Cynthia Lewis

“Our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For that reason we should do (as wise programmers aware of our limitations) our utmost to shorten the conceptual gap between the static program and the dynamic process, to make the correspondence between the program (spread out in text space) and the process (spread out in time) as trivial as possible.”

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Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in fact, in terms of immediate reaction it is quite boring. I can't imagine a single preliterate was ever wowed at the first sight of text, and yet text has been the basis of arguably the most fundamental intellectual transformation of the human species. It and its subforms, such as algebra, have made science education for all a plausible goal.”

“...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.”

“There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding their complexity. If the race is won by our tools, then systems will eventually become easier to use and more reliable. If not, they will continue to become harder to use and less reliable for all but a relatively small set of common tasks. Given how hard thinking is, if those intellectual tools are to succeed, they will have to substitute calculation for thought.”

“My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for physics, for statistics, for all the "hard" subjects.... In short, I believe more than ever that programming should be a key part of the intellectual development of people growing up.”

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