That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.
Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.
An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.
Any color works if you push it to the extreme.
Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.
Some pianists seem to really remember the keys and not so much the notes they play. They want to learn until it's a physical habit that can be replicated. For pianists, this is much more of a problem than for other instruments, like the violin, where you actually have to think of the pitch.
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.