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«The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acquire, conceptual, developing, e'en, equip, equipped, equipping, equips, essentials, further, i.e., integrate, integrates, I E, student, theoretical, The Knowledge, training, train of thought
«Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.»
Author: Brian Tracy
| About:
Ability,
Knowledge,
People
| Keywords:
acquire, apply, continuously, develop, forms, good form, indefinite, mover, movers, Movers and Shakers, shaker, Shakers, society
«When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.»
«To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.»
«The more I read, the more I meditate; and the more I acquire, the more I am enabled to affirm that I know nothing»
«To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
acquire, almost all, construct, miseries, refuge
«We work to become, not to acquire.»
«The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| Keywords:
acquire, admittedly, common mistake, condemnation, condemned, costs, natural ability, praised, The Wish
«We acquire the strength we have overcome.»
«Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
acquire, acquisition, acquisitions, battles, due, revolutions, slaves, solely, undertaken, wars
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