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Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as read more
I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don't think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn't even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don't know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did read more
When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to read more
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all read more
No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves – but what the teachers are themselves.
