"If we were to abandon concern for what……" — Howard Gardner
"If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying."
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Howard Gardner
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49 Quotes by Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner has 49 quotes on this site.
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To ask "Where in your brain is intelligence?" is like asking "Where is the voice in the radio?"
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Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.
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Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure…
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Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.
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If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a…
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What we want... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting…
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You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.
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We've got to do fewer things in school. The greatest enemy of understanding is coverage... You've got to take enough…
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If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to…
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Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.
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Knowledge is not the same as morality, but we need to understand if we are to avoid past mistakes and…
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It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.
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More Abandon Quotes
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for…
— Teresa of Avila
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
— Abu Bakr
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When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon…
— Javier Bardem
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If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of…
— Gary Bauer
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance…
— Gary Bauer
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration,…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.
— George W. Bush
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I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign…
— David Byrne
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the…
— Albert Camus
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