#iv

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

#alternative #culture #education #explore #must

Time takes all and gives all. ↗

— Giordano Bruno

#takes #time

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise. ↗

— Kobe Bryant

#me #negative #opportunity #pressure #rise

...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work. ↗

— Chris Crutcher

#experience #maturity #perspective #experience

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#good #good mind #mediocre #mind #reasonably

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#concealed #discover #favor #foolishness #forsake

Positive anything is better than negative nothing. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#anything #better #negative #nothing #than

The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot. ↗

— Herman Wouk

#everybody #gives #him #long #long shot

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#birth #born #conscious #death #dies

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#alive #almost #cowardly #dangerous #dead