It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.
A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.
An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.
A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.
I adopted the theory of Reincarnation when I was twenty six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work is futile if we cannot utilise the experience we collect in one life in the next. When I discovered Reincarnation... time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock... I would like to communicate to others the calmness that the long view of life gives to us.
There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.
Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.
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