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"To imagine that turmoil is in the past and somehow we are now in a more stable time seems to be a psychological need." - Eldridge M. Moores | "To imagine that turmoil is in the past and somehow we are now in a more stable time seems to be a psychological need." - Eldridge M. Moores | ||
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| + | "Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality". - [[Thomas Sowell]] | ||
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| + | "Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. . . . The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned or, at least, adds something new to it." - [[Ludwig von Mises]] | ||
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| + | "Thomas Edison's teachers said he was "too stupid to learn anything." He was fired from his first two jobs for being "non-productive." As an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. When a reporter asked, "How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?" Edison replied, "I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps."[http://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/OnFailingG.html][http://www.businessinsider.com/successful-people-who-failed-at-first-2014-3?op=1] | ||
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Truth
"So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, "If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." - John 8:31-32
"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair." - C. S. Lewis
"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." - Winston Churchill
Self - deception
"Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true." - Francis Bacon
"The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others." - François de La Rochefoucauld
"You can have no greater or lesser dominion than the one over yourself. The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Personal dishonesty is not needed to produce a dishonest business plan or research proposal. Wishful thinking suffices." - John McCarthy
"To imagine that turmoil is in the past and somehow we are now in a more stable time seems to be a psychological need." - Eldridge M. Moores
Educational establishment post 1950s
"Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality". - Thomas Sowell
Interesting education quotes
"Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. . . . The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned or, at least, adds something new to it." - Ludwig von Mises
"Thomas Edison's teachers said he was "too stupid to learn anything." He was fired from his first two jobs for being "non-productive." As an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. When a reporter asked, "How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?" Edison replied, "I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps."[1][2]