"The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a purely utilitarian point of view as the road to money, not as the gateway to wisdom."

-- Bertrand Russell

#Knowledge Quotes #Views Quotes #Training Quotes

“It's nice to help remember somebody who really made a very positive difference in the world.”
“Never try to outstubborn a cat.”
“I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more”
“God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.”
“I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, then I got a great agent, a great manager, which was really nice. I was doing a lot of set ups, and, you know, I got to start working in L.A.”
“Many oriental cultures make a distinction between two ways of looking - 'hard eyes' and 'soft eyes'. When we look with hard eyes, we see specific details with sharp focus, but we don't see the relationships between different details as well. When we look with soft eyes we see the relationships between everything in our field of vision, but with this softer focus, we don't see all the details as clearly. It's possible to look in two ways at once.”
“Certificates from top US universities adorned the walls like tiger head in a hunterâ€™s home.”
“I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing....”

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