Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
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Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence—natural ability notwithstanding.
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do things, we can accomplish those goals.
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The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
There is no education like adversity.
