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  Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

  Bill Nye

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Knowing

  Bill Nye (2015). “Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World”, p.370, St. Martin's Press

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• Compassion suits our physical condition, whereas anger, fear and distrust are harmful to our well-being. Therefore, just as we learn the importance of physical hygiene to physical health, to ensure healthy minds, we need to learn some kind of emotional hygiene.

  Dalai Lama

  Wisdom, Buddhist, Fear

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• Embracing failure is the most important trait I've developed in my career. I have tried to learn from my failures, and I believe it has made me stronger, more confident and more resilient.

  Reshma Saujani

  Confidence, Stay Strong, Believe

  Source: on.mtv.com

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• We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning.

  Gavin de Becker

  Inspirational, Children, Nice

  Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

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• Giving a poor person money keeps them poorer longer...often forever; give them knowledge instead.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Education, Money, Knowledge

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Apr 13, 2017

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• You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

  Nancy Reagan

  Life, Appreciation, Time

  "Diane Sawyer Talks With Nancy Reagan". Interview with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. June 28.

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• The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

  Charles Godfrey Leland

  Men, Singing, Silent

  Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.2

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• To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Philosophy

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• Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Encouragement, Truth

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• People who are cocky and arrogant say, 'I know that' and move along. People who are confident and positive ask themselves,' How good am I at that?' and seek to improve

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Moving, Cocky, People

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• Success is a learnable skill. You can learn to succeed at anything. If you want to be a great golfer, you can learn how to do it. If you want to be a great piano player, you can learn how to do it. If you want to be truly happy, you can learn how to do it. If you want to be rich, you can learn how to do it. It doesn't matter where you are right now. It doesn't matter where you're starting from. What matters is that you are willing to learn.

  T. Harv Eker

  Motivational, Happiness, Happy

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 15, 2015

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• To live our lives fully, to work whole heartily, to refuse directly what we can't swallow, to accepts the mystery in all matters of meaning- this is the ultimate adventure.

  Peter Block

  Teaching, Adventure, Matter

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• I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

  Juana Inés de la Cruz

  Inspirational, Education, Knowledge

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• To teach is to learn twice.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• Learn to live, and live to learn,
  Ignorance like a fire doth burn,
  Little tasks make large return.

  Bayard Taylor

  Ignorance, Fire, Tasks

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• I believe babies are born as innovative personalities... But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning.

  Jay Wright Forrester

  Baby, Teaching, Believe

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• I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

  William Shenstone

  Oil, Midnight, Lamps

  William Shenstone, “Elegy Xi. He Complains How Soon The Pleasing Novelty Of Life Is Over”

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• Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

  William Shenstone

  Use, Coins, May

  William Shenstone (1768). “The Works, in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: In Two Volumes. With Decorations”, p.237

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• Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ? and just sit still and watch.

  Lauren Hutton

  Real, Watches, Littles

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• Thou art an heyre to fayre lying, that is nothing, if thou be disinherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were if for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony.

  John Lyly

  Art, Lying, Riches

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• Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned.
  [Lat., Delle belle eruditissima, delle erudite bellissima.]

  Jacopo Sannazaro

  Belle, Fairs, Erudite

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• We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map.

  Guy Claxton

  Teaching, Benefits, World

  Guy Claxton (2001). “Wise Up”, p.254, A&C Black

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• Parkour teaches you to be sure of what you are able to do.

  David Belle

  Inspirational, Able, Parkour

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• It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Character

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.

  Sparky Anderson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Sparky Anderson, Dan Ewald (1990). “Sparky!”, Touchstone

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