Jacob Barnett quotes

“Stop Learning and start thinking.”
-- Jacob Barnett

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“Instead of being a student of a (given) field, I would like you to be the field.”
-- Jacob Barnett

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“Children with Autism aren't missing. Instead, they are off making discoveries”
-- Jacob Barnett

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“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”

“A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.”

Source : A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com

“Think it over, think it under.”

“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.”

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”

“I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.”

“Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.”

“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”

“I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.”

“Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...”

Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.