First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
- Topic: Learning
- Location: Caribou-Targhee National Forest
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason.
Happiness is a quality of the soul, not a function of one's material circumstances.
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We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.
I've learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
A student is not a container you have to fill, but a torch you have to light up.
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.