"Sometimes, the only way to learn something really well is to revert to the state of mind of a novice and reawaken to the raw observations that you have accumulated instead of relying on the conclusions you have reached from the exogenous premises absorbed through teaching and bookish learning."

-- Erik Naggum

#Teaching Quotes #Mind Quotes #Novices Quotes

“It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up.”
“It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!”

Source : Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.297, tredition
“I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people.”
“I think every person who is single should have a dog. I think the government should step in and intervene: If you're not married or coupled up, whether you've been dumped or divorced or widowed or whatever, they should require you to proceed immediately to the pound nearest you and select an animal companion.”
“Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.”

Source : Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.93, 1st World Publishing
“Aaron Rodgers is going to spell â€˜relaxâ€™ with R-U-Nâ€¦Youâ€™re going to see a lot of Eddie Lacy.”
“If womenâ€™s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.”
“To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.”

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