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educational acceptance hands
Woodrow Wilson I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.
educational lying men
Woodrow Wilson The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.
educational views ideas
William James To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions, or distinctions, or points of view. But while these special ideas are being added, the rest of your knowledge stands still, and only gradually will you line up your previous opinions with the novelties I am trying to instill, and to modify to some slight degree their mass. ..Your mind in such processes is strained, and sometimes painfully so, between its older beliefs and the novelties which experience brings along.
educational philosophy emotional
William James An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.
educational philosophy literature
William James It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
educational philosophy science
William James We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.
educational philosophy men
William James Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life
educational philosophy ideas
William James If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with, when you begin to talk. That something can consist in nothing but a previous lot of ideas already interesting in themselves, and of such a nature that the incoming novel objects which you present can dovetail into them and form with them some kind of a logically associated or systematic whole.
philosophy mean thinking
William Ralph Inge Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.
philosophy science engineering
Richard P. Feynman Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
philosophy
Richelle Mead You destroy my life then feed me inspirational philosophy.
philosophy design innovation
Roger Martin When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.
philosophy ideas should
Umberto Eco Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.
philosophy matter remember
Travis Tritt Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along.
philosophy believe opportunity
Reid Hoffman We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.
philosophy littles psychedelic
William S. Burroughs A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
philosophy littles too-much
William Mapother I went to Notre Dame. I don't know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology.
literature great-work genre
Walter Benjamin All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
literature records discontent
Virginia Woolf literature is the record of our discontent.
literature form bother
Samuel Beckett You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering to read the other.
literature trade pursue
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Never pursue literature as a trade.
literature american-literature immigrants
Salman Rushdie American literature has always been immigrant.
literature world-literature answers
Roland Barthes Literature is the question minus the answer.
literature serious doe
Witold Gombrowicz Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.
literature infinity attention
William Jones Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself.
literature architecture painting
Yevgeny Zamyatin Literature is painting, architecture, and music.