Gordon Pask quotes

Gordon Pask quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I mean somebody with the wit and the guts to go and do and create. And, that I believe is what education is all about”
-- Gordon Pask

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“I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.”
“Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.”
“Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.”

Source : A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1976). “Bhagavad-Gita as it is: Abridged edition with translations and elaborate purports”
“The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.”
“You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.”
“One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.”
“The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.”
“Wit and judgment often are at strife.”
“Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?”
“Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.”

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