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3 years ago X "Making learning easy does not necessarily ease learning." Manu Kapur
X "If you don't learn to fail, you will fail to learn." Manu Kapur
X "Pass on what you have learned. Strength, mastery. But weakness, folly, failure also. Yes, failure most of all. The greatest teacher, failure is." Yoda
X "Most of what we believe, we believe because it was told to us by someone we trusted. What I would like to suggest, however, is that if we rely too much on that kind of education, we could find in the end that we have never really learned anything." Paul Wallace
X "The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried." Stephen McCranie
"A smooth lecture...may be pleasant; a good teacher challenges, asks, irritates and maintains high standards – all that is generally not pleasant." Paul Halmos
"The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk." Paul Halmos
X "Time spent thinking about a problem is always time well spent. Even if you seem to make no progress at all." Paul Zeitz
X "In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour. But, at night, under the full moon, they dream, they float among the stars and wonder at the miracle of the heavens. They are inspired. Without dreams there is no art, no mathematics, no life." Michael Atiyah
X "The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see." Alexandra K. Trenfor
X "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." Winston Churchill
X "There’s no real mystery about this at the moment. This is what we want now. It may prove wrong later, but we’ll correct that when we come to it." From “The Mentat Handbook,” Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
"The secret to education is in respecting the student." Ralph Waldo Emerson
X "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." Galileo Galilei
X "If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is." John von Neumann
X "We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves." Galileo Galilei
X "The obstacle is the path." Zen saying, author unknown
X "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry." Bertrand Russell in Mysticism and Logic
X "A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas” (Hardy, 1992 , p. 84)
X "Nothing that’s worth anything is ever easy." Mike Hall
X "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do” – Mark Twain
X "Any creative endeavor is built on the ash heap of failure." Michael Starbird
X "Every time that a human being succeeds in making an effort of attention with the sole idea of increasing his grasp of truth, he acquires a greater aptitude for grasping it, even if his effort produces no visible fruit." Simone Weil
X "An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching." Mahatma Gandhi
X "The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." Marcus Aurelius
X "Don’t just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? What happens in the classical special case? What about the degenerate cases? Where does the proof use the hypothesis?" Paul Halmos
X "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." Helen Keller
X "I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples." Mother Teresa
X I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Bene Gesserit litany against fear from Frank Herbert's Dune
X "I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit." Ernest Hemingway
X "If you learn how to learn, it’s the ultimate meta skill and I believe you can learn how to be healthy, you can learn how to be fit, you can learn how to be happy, you can learn how to have good relationships, you can learn how to be successful. These are all things that can be learned. So if you can learn that is a trump card, it's an ace, it's a joker, it's a wild card. You can trade it for any other skill." Naval Ravikant
X "The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. We should be grateful for it and hope that it will remain valid in future research and that it will extend, for better or for worse, to our pleasure, even though perhaps also to our bafflement, to wide branches of learning." Eugene Paul Wigner
X "Pure mathematics is the poetry of logical ideas." (Albert Einstein)
X "God made the integers, all else is the work of man." (Leopold Kronecker)
X "God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets." (Gian-Carlo Rota)
X "All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things.” — Stephanie Kwolek
X "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.” - Mae Jemison
X "I'd rather regret the risks that didn't work out than the chances I didn't take at all." Simone Biles
X "With two published novels and a file full of ideas for others, the only thing I know about writing is this: it only happens when you sit down and do it. Studying good writing is important, reading good writing is important, talking to other writers is important, AND the only way you can produce good writing is to write." Jamie Beth Cohen
X "Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome." Bren\'e Brown
"Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up." Bren\'e Brown
Perhaps put one quote in every section. That's a minimum of 38 quotes.