"When any real progress is made, we..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
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“What we need to know in any case is very simple.”
“We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.”
“The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.”
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“We learn from our mistakes, we do some reflection, we lick our wounds, we brush ourselves off - then we go forward, with the presumption of good faith in our fellow citizens.”
“Those who do not know history will forever remain children”
“So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.”
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“Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.”
“But by all means, keep moving.”
“I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers; A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'”