"It is the way, isn't it? With humans and free thought. They only learn through terrible mistakes. Free thought does not make wisdom. Instead it creates enough space for men to commit terrible folly, from which the survivors learn through disaster."

-- Joel Shepherd

#Mistake Quotes #Men Quotes #Space Quotes

“In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.”
“We will learn no matter what! Learning is as natural as rest or play. With or without books, inspiring trainers or classrooms, we will manage to learn. Educators can, however, make a difference in what people learn and how well they learn it. If we know why we are learning and if the reason fits our needs as we perceive them, we will learn quickly and deeply.”
“I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness.”
“...as long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role in production is simply that of ancillary tools, then there are striking elements of coercion and oppression that make talk of democracy very limited, if even meaningful.”
“There are some people who believe that dreams really are just kind of a throwaway thing. They are just a way of your brain processing what's happening during the day, but there's really no meaning to them; a lot of imagery of just flashes of what happened.”
“The good is the greatest rival of the best.”
“We'll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens”

Source : Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at the Knesset, October 31, 2010.
“Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.”

Source : Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.41, University of Missouri Press

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