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Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several… — William James
The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and… — William James
Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain… — William James
The student is infinitely more important than the subject matter. — Nel Noddings
There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers. — Tom Robbins
'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it. — Tom Robbins
This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to… — Tom Robbins
If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when… — Tom Robbins
The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development. — Lev S. Vygotsky
Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature… — Lev S. Vygotsky
Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another,… — Lev S. Vygotsky
Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of… — Lev S. Vygotsky
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. — S I Hayakawa
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have… — W G Sebald
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste. — William Shakespeare
I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something. — Isabel Allende
Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own. — Alistair Cooke
There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book… — Alistair Cooke
The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap… — Arthur Rimbaud
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction… — Jim Rohn
Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour… — John Burroughs
The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they wrote its literature… — Robert Bly

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