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[Quote No.59684] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[History is highly subjective and biased:] History is fables agreed upon." - Voltaire
(1694-1778), pen-name of François Marie Arouet.
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[Quote No.59696] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[It is important to be skeptical:] Be wary of headlines that tell you what's good or bad for you. Scrutinize data before accepting it as dogma." - David B. Agus
Doctor and author of 'The End of Illness'.
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[Quote No.59705] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker." - Denis Waitley
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[Quote No.59734] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"We learn about life not from pluses alone, but from minuses as well.
" - Anton Chekhov
Doctor and playwright.
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[Quote No.59743] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Always desire to learn something useful." - Sophocles
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[Quote No.59749] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get de-geniused by the love and fear of their parents - that they might make a mistake. But all my advances were made by mistakes [that allowed me to learn something useful]." - Buckminster Fuller
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[Quote No.59774] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid." - Marcus Aurelius
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[Quote No.59785] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival." - W. Edwards Deming
(1900-1993)
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[Quote No.59796] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Autodidactism:] No matter how good the school; education is in your own hands. Education must be self-education." - Robert Henri
(1865 - 1929), American painter and teacher. He was a leading figure of the Ashcan School of American realism.
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[Quote No.59803] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Learn and live. If you don't, you won't." - U.S. Army
From a training film for World War II.
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[Quote No.59825] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression and press versus censorship and propaganda:] One lesson that I draw from the pervasiveness of ignorance and uncertainty is that the civility and robustness of a community depends on the extent to which each of us acknowledges that at least some part of everything we think we know isn't actually true (including, I suppose, this knowledge, as well). That is, a free and flourishing society demands both tolerance and criticism from its citizens." - Sandy Ikeda
'Tolerance, Criticism, and Humility are Core Principles of Freedom', July 22, 2016.
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[Quote No.59846] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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[Quote No.59848] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Skepticism is important because...] Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices [assumptions, etc] - only recognise them." - Edward Murrow
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[Quote No.59855] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Luck is when preparation meets opportunity:] I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.
" - Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865), 16th President of the United States.
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[Quote No.59857] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"My way toward the truth is to ask the right questions." - Socrates
As stated in Plato's 'Protagoras'.
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[Quote No.59859] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Prejudice rarely survives experience." - Eve Zibart
American author, columnist. Source: 'The Washington Post'.
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[Quote No.59873] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression and press versus censorship and propaganda:] Debate, it seems to me, is one of the most useful of human inventions. It is the mother and father of all free inquiry and honest thought. It tests ideas, detects errors and promotes clear thinking. A man cannot stand up before it without exposing his whole intellectual stock of goods." - H. L. Mencken
(1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic.
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[Quote No.59876] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it." - Horace Mann
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[Quote No.59882] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Skepticism is necessary:] Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
" - Bible
Matthew 7:15
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[Quote No.59891] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"There is a profound difference between information and meaning." - Warren G. Bennis
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[Quote No.59896] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"I think most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying.
One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, i.e. the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to." - Elon Musk
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[Quote No.59903] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches." - James Burgh
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[Quote No.59915] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"All the lessons of history in four sentences:
-- Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.
-- The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
-- The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.
-- When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." - Charles A. Beard
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[Quote No.59935] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old." - Epicurus
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[Quote No.59943] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Life-skills and practical wisdom:] ...philosophy's true use: [is] as an operating system for the difficulties and hardships of life." - Ryan Holiday
Quote from his book, 'The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage'.
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[Quote No.59945] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"It is impossible to learn that which one thinks one already knows." - Epictetus
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[Quote No.59949] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"He who says either that the time for philosophy [wisdom] has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed. " - Epicurus
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[Quote No.59965] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"If you would enjoy real freedom [from pain of any sort], you must be the slave of Philosophy [strict follower of wisdom].
" - Epicurus
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[Quote No.59969] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Life-skills and wisdom:] Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind." - Epicurus
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[Quote No.59970] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Life-skills and wisdom:] The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain." - Epicurus
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[Quote No.59986] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The principal and proper work of history is to instruct." - Thomas Hobbes
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[Quote No.59987] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"He who cannot draw on 3000 years [of history, culture, experiments, insights, wisdom, etc] is living from hand to mouth." - Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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[Quote No.60008] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Learning, self-empowerment, freedom and good citizenship, law and order:] Once in New York, I listened to a talk about the building of private prisons - a huge growth industry in America. The prison industry needs to plan its future growth - how many cells are they going to need? How many prisoners are there going to be, fifteen years from now? And they found they could predict it very easily, using a pretty simple algorithm, based about asking what percentage of ten- and eleven-year-olds couldn't read. And certainly couldn't read for pleasure." - Neil Gaiman
[https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/08/03/neil-gaiman-view-from-the-cheap-seats-reading/ ]
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[Quote No.60014] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over." - Neil Gaiman
[https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/08/03/neil-gaiman-view-from-the-cheap-seats-reading/ ]
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[Quote No.60018] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Skepticism and doubt:] By skeptic, I just mean the scientific approach to claims and most scientists are skeptical by nature. Not by human nature, but by dent of their training because science starts with the hypothesis. It starts with the idea that whatever your claim is it's not true until you prove to us otherwise." - Michael Shermer
monthly columnist for Scientific American and founding publisher of Skeptic magazine. [http://www.peakprosperity.com/podcast/100238/michael-shermer-importance-skepticism?utm_campaign=weekly_newsletter_243&utm_source=newsletter_2016-08-05 ]
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[Quote No.60023] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Creativity and skepticism:] The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered." - Jean Piaget
(1896-1980), psychologist.
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[Quote No.60034] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Skepticism:] By suspending judgment, by confining oneself to phenomena or objects as they appear, and by asserting nothing definite as to how they really are, one can escape the perplexities of life and attain an imperturbable peace of mind." - Pyrrho
(circa 360-270 BCE), known as the first skeptical philosopher.
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[Quote No.60059] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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[Quote No.60061] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"It is [one of] the sublime miracle[s] of the human mind: memory." - Elias Canetti
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[Quote No.60071] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"If you want to be a big success in any area, find out what other successful people in that area are doing, and do the same things, until you get the same results.
" - Brian Tracy
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[Quote No.60073] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives:
All of the books that we will ever need to make us as rich, as healthy, as happy, as powerful, as sophisticated and as successful as we want to be have already been written.
People from all walks of life, people with some of the most incredible life experiences, people that have gone from pennies to fortune and from failure to success have taken the time to write down their experiences so that we might share in their wealth of knowledge. They have offered their wisdom and experience so that we can be inspired by it and instructed by it and so that we can amend our philosophy by it. Their contributions enable us to reset our sail based upon their experiences. They have handed us the gift of their insights so that we can change our plans, if need be, in order to avoid their errors. We can rearrange our lives based on their wise advice.
All of the insights that we might ever need have already been captured by others in books. The important question is this: In the last 90 days, with this treasure of information that could change our lives, our fortunes, our relationships, our health, our children and our careers for the better, how many books have we read?
Why do we neglect to read the books that can change our lives? Why do we complain but remain the same? Why do so many of us curse the effect but nourish the cause? Those who wish for the better life cannot permit themselves to miss the books that could have a major impact on how their lives turn out. The book they miss will not help!
And the issue is not that books are too expensive! If a person concludes that the price of buying the book is too great, wait until he must pay the price for not buying it. Wait until he receives the bill for continued and prolonged ignorance.
There is very little difference between someone who cannot read and someone who will not read. The result of either is ignorance. Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.
A little reading each day will result in a wealth of valuable information in a very short period of time. But if we fail to set aside the time, if we fail to pick up the book, if we fail to exercise the discipline, then ignorance will quickly move in to fill the void.
Those who seek a better life must first become a better person. They must continually seek after self-mastery for the purpose of developing a balanced philosophy of life, and then live in accordance with the dictates of that philosophy. The habit of reading is a major stepping-stone in the development of a sound philosophical foundation. And in my opinion it is one of the fundamentals required for the attainment of success and happiness." - Jim Rohn
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[Quote No.60105] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Creativity is just connecting things. ...they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things." - Steve Jobs
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[Quote No.60106] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Life is trying things to see if they work.
" - Ray Bradbury
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[Quote No.60122] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Library, n. A secular house of worship." - Dr. Mardy Grothe
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[Quote No.60124] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Your library is your portrait.
" - Holbrook Jackson
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[Quote No.60126] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of that memory is called the library." - Carl Sagan
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[Quote No.60127] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Skepticism is important:] To maintain the state of doubt and to carry on systematic and protracted inquiry — these are the essentials of thinking." - John Dewey
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[Quote No.60128] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Never stop learning. If you just learn something a little a day, it will add up over time immensely." - Leo Babauta
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[Quote No.60138] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills." - Ray Kurzweil
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[Quote No.60142] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Skepticism, doubt and questioning are vital:] Once one knows what really matters, one ceases to be voluble. And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing, doing and thinking - and these are the sum of all wisdom [and truth]...Both must move ever onward in life, to and fro, like breathing in and breathing out. Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749-1832), German poet, dramatist and philosopher
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