Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
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By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
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The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
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Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.
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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
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There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.
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We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
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Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
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