Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.

Author: Alison Gopnik

Author: Alison Gopnik

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If a lotus is to grow, it needs to be rooted in the mind.

Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
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May the Lord increase your strength.

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A long held belief based on a perceived reality that is rooted in a diminishing view of yourself or

Author: Dave Rudbarg
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The map is not the territory.

Author: Alfred Korzybski
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When problems beat upon you like a raging storm, search for the eye. You might not be able to avoid

Author: Richelle E. Goodrich
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You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illus

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We slip into a dream, forgetting the room we're sitting in, forgetting it's lunchtime or time to go

Author: John Gardner
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I warned myself against the danger of compassion in this case. How easy it would be to imagine the t

Author: Dean Koontz
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Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

Author: Frank McCourt
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"It was as true " said Mr. Barkis ... "as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them."

Author: Charles Dickens
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Sometimes you met someone that changed the pattern, who wormed their way past the cracks in your hea

Author: Diana Peterfreund
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I didn't get into writing to make money or get famous or any of that. I got into it to hit hearts, a

Author: Tim O'Brien
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I've had enough of these streets that sweat a cold, yellow slime, of hostile people, of crying mysel

Author: Jean Rhys
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No matter how many rules we make for ourselves, rules don't create godly relationships. Only leaning

Author: Eric Ludy
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Whatever you believe, with feeling,becomes your reality.

Author: Brian Tracy
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We always long for forbidden things k and desire what is denied us.

Author: Francois Rabelais
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I cannot remember you when the rain flows down -I cannot remember youandmy heart begins to drown ...

Author: Muse
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're

Author: Laura Dern
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Female castration results in concentration of her feelings upon her male companion, and her impotenc

Author: Germaine Greer
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Time in the turning-over of days works change for better or worse.

Author: Pindar
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...this is how politics is played. With fakery and false smiles and butcher knives to the back.

Author: Emma Chase
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Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Author: Marianne Moore
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There is no greater love than the love of God.

Author: Unknown
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I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would neve

Author: Alice Munro
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You stole my heart the day we met, and I've never asked for it back.

Author: Shirley Jump
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Consider me your candy stripper... I mean striper.

Author: Simone Elkeles
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To vastly improve your country and truly make it great again, start by choosing a better leader. Do

Author: Suzy Kassem
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I think sometimes we spend so much time trying to find out who we are we lose sight of who we want t

Author: Anonymous
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The only person you should compete with is you.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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If you would understand your own age read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise s

Author: Arthur Helps
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The glory of youth is their strength.

Author: Unknown
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Are there moments when our brains are not exercising?” I questioned. “That would be almost like bein

Author: Vann Chow
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You are message to the world make it motivating.

Author: Nadair Desmar
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He must love you very much,' Gavril said once I had my footing.I couldn't look at him. 'What makes y

Author: Kiera Cass
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What did I know of loving anything, beyond a longing, beyond being biased in one woman's direction.

Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure

Author: Jane Austen
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It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mank

Author: John Boyle O'Reilly
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There's none so blind as those who won't see.

Author: Unknown
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Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.

Author: Wendy Kopp
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Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?

Author: C.S. Lewis
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Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.

Author: Ellen Hopkins
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Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

Author: William O. Douglas
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God loves you in spite of your mistakes

Author: Thea Harris
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PROPAGANDA (PROP-A-GANDER)An evil grin behind a smiling clown's maskKamil Ali

Author: Kamil Ali
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The only pathway to your destruction is your ignorance.

Author: Auliq-Ice
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Today's 'religious freedom' policies should not be seen as a problem limited to LGBT people but as a

Author: DaShanne Stokes
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To be happy, be the cause of happiness for others.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

Author: Walt Whitman
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The voices in my head does not likes attitude of some people. I know how to defend myself, but I do

Author: Sammy Toora Powerlifter
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I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

Author: Karl Lagerfeld
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Ash is going to kick your ass, Daemon."Daemon's grin went up a notch. "Nah, she likes my ass too muc

Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
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A positive Mindset attracts Success like a magnet and a negative one loves to marry failure, procras

Author: Oscar Bimpong
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And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people.

Author: Chuck Palahniuk
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The time had finally come when she would have to accept the full power of the Starwife. No longer co

Author: Robin Jarvis
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Let your judgements have their own quiet, undisturbed development, which must, like all progress, co

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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There is always a method in the seeming chaos of creation” - The Monk

Author: Shashi
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There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

Author: Richard M. Rorty
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Before swearing in new citizens, immigration officials check to make sure prospective citizens weren

Author: Kate Brown
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A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

Author: Gabrielle Zevin
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The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

Author: William James
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If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.

Author: John Piper
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My mind secures as long as my soul is awaken.

Author: Akinwale Musa Oluseun
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The Holy Spirit does not speak to a soul that is distracted and garrulous. He speaks by His quiet in

Author: Maria Faustina Kowalska
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It is often asked, “How could the early disciples turn the world upside downwhen millions of Christi

Author: Billy Graham
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So what indeed! The lesson I myself learned over and over again when teaching at the college and the

Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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With night's Dim veil and blue I will cover my eyes, I will bind close my eyes that are So weary.

Author: Adelaide Crapsey
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Consider this a one-thousand horsepower divorce, sweetheart

Author: Daven Anderson
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Normality; show me normality, señor caballero, and I will show you an exception to the abnormal orde

Author: Carlos Fuentes
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It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a p

Author: Cara Delevingne
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

Author: Michel de Montaigne
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That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you

Author: Ernest Hemingway
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I still hear the world spinning.

Author: Kamila Shamsie
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Stay forever enthusiastic about your desirable dreams.

Author: Unknown
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You say "But He has not answered." He has He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His

Author: Oswald Chambers
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Time utilization and effectiveness is a major marker for success

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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I thought it was a novel.”“It is.”“What’s it about??”“You’ll have to buy it to find out, but it’s go

Author: Marcel Theroux
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So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.

Author: Andrew Sean Greer
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In your 40s, you shed those who bring you down and surround yourself with the most positive people y

Author: Jami Attenberg
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Soulful healing asks, while you are healing your body with herbs from Earth, that you look for the m

Author: Robin Rose Bennett
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P.T.S.D. doesn't make you weak. It makes you a survivor.

Author: DaShanne Stokes
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John raised an eyebrow. “So you wouldn’t date someone like you?”“Oh, hell, no. I’m insane, but that

Author: Forrest Carr
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Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.

Author: Terry Goodkind
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For me, it matters that we drive technology as an equalizing force, as an enabler for everyone aroun

Author: Sundar Pichai
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Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock th

Author: Debasish Mridha
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Fear success but not the mistakes.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write

Author: John Updike
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Against Self-PityIt gets you nowhere but deeper intoyour own shit--pure misery a luxuryone never lea

Author: Rita Dove
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The socioeconomic impact of such a minor outburst is due to our technological development (air trave

Author: Slavoj Žižek
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The pair smiled desperately at one another. And for the first time ever, despite the fact that every

Author: Darren Shan
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If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Author: Lao Tzu
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Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, b

Author: Rebecca Stead
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I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not

Author: Caroline Kennedy
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Every unnecessary law helps fashion the noose we will ultimately be hung by.

Author: A.E. Samaan
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It wasn't exactly love at first sight, but it was deeper than that. A sense of belonging to a place

Author: Nikki Rowe
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My best advice is never to address any woman as Madam unless she holds a high position in government

Author: David B. Lentz
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When we encourage othersWith no personal motives,We raise high, very high,Humanity's progress-standa

Author: Sri Chinmoy
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Having knowledge of an unethical act and allowing it to continue can spread a contagion that can aff

Author: Bertrand Russell
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But these words people threw around - humans, monsters, heroes, villains - to Victor it was all just

Author: V.E. Schwab
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Better spend time working hard to maintain your good habits because you may look for time to recover

Author: Israelmore Ayivor