Dies Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

— Anonymous

I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his…

— Nicolas Malebranche

He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature

— Mencius

“The only teaching possible is to show a man how to learn from his own wisdom, and to utilise his ignorance and mistakes: not…

— Austin Osman Spare

In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him that every…

— William James

He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.

— William S. Burroughs

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens to hunt,…

— Ayn Rand

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.”

— James Thurber

A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

— Albert Einstein

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.

— Ayn Rand