Giles Rich famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.
Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.
Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.
I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.
The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.
Where I am ignorant, Lord, teach me. Where I am wrong, Lord, correct me. Where I am right, Lord, confirm me.

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