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- Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
- In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.
- In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth…
- In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal…
- There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations
- It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the…
- The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is…
- The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of God's agency in…
- By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the…
- In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking…
- An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in…
- Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.
- Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.
- All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.
- There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the spirit of change,…
- Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when…
- Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.
- Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?
- In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not…
- The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives,…
- Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different…
- The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the…
- The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity,…
- There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
- Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
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