Ralph W. Gerard quotes
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“Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.”
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“No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!”
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“There is first the problem of acquiring content, which is learning. There is another problem of acquiring learning skills, which is not merely learning, but learning to learn, not velocity, but acceleration. Learning to learn is one of the great inventions of living things. It is tremendously important. It makes evolution, biological as well as social, go faster. And it involves the development of the individual.”
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“How to teach rigor while preserving imagination is an unsolved challenge to education.”
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Source : "Atma Bodh" translated by Swami Chinmayananda, Chinmaya Mission, (p. 16), 1987.
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“Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.”
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Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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“The simplest answer is to act.”
Source : "Everybody Sees the Ants". Book by A.S. King, 2011.
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“The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap”
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Source : Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”
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“We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.”
Source : "SQ : Connecting with Our Spiritual Intelligence". Book by Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall, 2000.
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