John Lubbock Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Memories, Children

• Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous.

  John Lubbock

  Mistake, Enemy, Wicked

• Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.

  John Lubbock

  Mistake, Men, Too Much

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