"How can he remember well his ignorance..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?
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“The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.”
“When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.”
“If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.”
More on Learning
“Fall forward. Here's what I mean: Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career - the most in the history of baseball. But you don't hear about the strikeouts. People remember the home runs. Fall forward. Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments. Did you know that? I didn't either - because number 1,001 was the light bulb. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.”
“He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.”
“Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.”
More on Growth
“if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.”
“Everyone who's a success, is a continual learner.”
“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. This sequence is something that all achievers have in common. They do not see a mistake is as their failure; rather it is simply a learning experience. Achievers view a mistake as an opportunity to do something over again and do it right the second time. A mistake is simply the price they pay to achieve success.”