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“An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.”

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Author:Benjamin Carson

“I've learned so much from my mistakes... I'm thinking of making some more.”

Thinking Mistake Learning Singers I've Learned Making Mistakes Learning From Mistakes My Mistakes

Author:Cheryl Cole

“When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.”

“I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.”

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Author:Joyce Brothers

“I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.”

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Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.”

Thinking Knows Men Doe Time Loses Knowledge Learning Modern Gains Time Management Wasting Time Modernism Modern Man Art Of Loving Time To Kill

Book:The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition

Source: The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition

“I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.”

“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”

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Author:John Cotton Dana

“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.”

“As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.”

People Thinking Want Inspirational Feels Persons Inspiration Action Learning Behavior

Book:Developing the Leader Within You Workbook

Source: Developing the Leader Within You Workbook

“Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.”

“For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.”

Thinking Numbers Audience Learning Teacher Pride Bigger Worthy Pupils Large Numbers Best Teacher All The Best

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)

“Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.”

Thinking Way Life Left Change Learning Live Life Life Changing I Have Learned Things Change Way To Live

Book:Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

“Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.”

People Thinking Seems Born Known Learning Taught Dance Dancer Ballet

Author:Fred Astaire

“You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.”

Thinking Men Education Learning University

Author:Finley Peter Dunne

“The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.”

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Author:Theodore Parker

“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”

Source: The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works

“It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.”

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Author:Robert M. Hutchins

“It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.”

Thinking Knows Knowledge Learning

Author:Chester Barnard

“To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.”

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Book:Tao Te Ching

Source: Tao Te Ching

“In order to be big, you have to think big. If you think small, you're going to be small.”

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Author:Emeril Lagasse

“Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking - the strain would be too great - but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest.”

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Book:School Education

Source: School Education

“Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe you are in earnest, and really wish them to obey you, so long as your actions contradict your counsel... Think not your children will practise what they do not see you do. You are their model picture, and they will copy what you are... will seldom learn habits which they see you despise, or walk in paths in which you do not walk yourself.”

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Author:J. C. Ryle

“I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.”

“My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.”

“Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization...I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.”

“It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”

Source: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

“Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.”

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Book:Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom

Source: Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom

“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

“What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Self Philosophy Business Practice Learning Impossible Conceit Conceited

Author:Epictetus

“Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.”

Thinking Different Wisdom Culture Vision Creativity Learning Seeing Discovery Awe

Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.”

Thinking Way May Mean Done Change Creative Learning Virtue Design Particular Realization Creative Thinking

Author:Rudolf Flesch

“One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.”

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Author:John Dewey

“Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.”

Source: THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS

“Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.”

“When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.”

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Author:Paul Simon

“Teach a child how to think, not what to think.”

“Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.”

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Author:Josiah Royce

“Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.”

Thinking Writing Process Learning

Author:William Zinsser

“Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.”

Thinking Given Learning Teaching

Author:Norman Cousins

“Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.”

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Author:Ellen Langer

“He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”

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Book:论语

Source: 论语

“Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

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

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Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“I think in business, you have to learn to be patient. Maybe I'm not very patient myself. But I think that I've learned the most is be able to wait for something and get it when it's the right time.”

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Author:Bernard Arnault

“I'm a big believer in growth. Life is not about achievement, it's about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us.”

“[The main focus in my life now is] to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth. They should be eager to learn, to listen, to research and not to confine, to hurt, to kill, those who disagree with them.”

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Author:John Templeton

“The act of learning itself is no longer seen as simply a matter of information transfer, but rather as a process of dynamic participation, in which students cultivate new ways of thinking and doing, through active discovery and discussion, experimentation and reflection.”

“I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.”

Thinking Deals Learning No Failure

Book:Mary, Mary

Source: Mary, Mary

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