Behavior Quote by Robert Creeley

This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude.

— Ralph Barton Perry

“After twenty years of research, Willingham announced that he had arrived at the conclusion that critical thinking cannot be taught. That”

— Terry Marselle

The work that I wanted to create wasn't being done then. I was too much concerned about fellow students, professors, institutional style [in Yale].

— Kehinde Wiley

“Before becoming headmaster of Eton, Claude Elliott had taught history at Cambridge University, despite an ingrained distrust of academics and an aversion to intellectual…

— Ben Macintyre

“Nevertheless, his very superiority kept him from being a success in college--the independence was mistaken for egotism, and the refusal to accept Yale standards…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

George is very, very single-minded in his approach. And I think a lot of the things that he has said and done have been…

— Andrew Ridgeley

“Thus he started his education, that marvelous, growing, aching process whereby a mind develops into a usable instrument with a collection of proved experience…

— James A. Michener

“Anti-intellectual resentment is common in all of American life and it has many diverse expressions. Refusing to draft college players might have been one…

— Michael Lewis

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was…

— Malcolm X

“The surest way to corrupt a youth? Teach him to value thinking alike more than thinking differently.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche - Kauffman

“Maybe young Barnes did not know it at the time, but his bulldog determination, his persistence in standing back of a single DESIRE, was…

— Napoleon Hill