#advance

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned. ↗

— John Holt

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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn. ↗

— William Banting

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If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

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Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests. ↗

— John Bolton

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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. ↗

— Benjamin Cardozo

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I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win. ↗

— Eric Cantona

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The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance. ↗

— Aeschylus

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The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

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The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration. ↗

— Chris Anderson

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