"To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it."

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Source : Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.491

Richard Whately

#Science Quotes #Curiosity Quotes #Fields Quotes

“For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.”
“There are not schizophrenics. There are people with schizophrenia and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be your neighbor, they may be your friend, they may be your coworker”

Source : "What's It Like To Have A Psychotic Episode?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 6, 2013.
“The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists.”
“All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today”
“What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.”
“One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself. This is where creativity begins.”
“Who we are is really defined by the work we put out.”
“I moonlighted during a two-week vacation, doing a month's worth of work in two weeks; it almost killed me, but I wanted to stretch my muscles and the letter from the producer says, "Your storyboarding is Eisensteinian," referring to the famous Russian filmmaker.”

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