Intelligence is quickness to

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

~ Alfred North Whitehead

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There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

You take risks in whatever you do. But if you understand, measure, and account for them, that should keep you out of trouble.

~ Dennis Weatherstone

Victoria Beckham gives away all her old clothes to starving children. Well, who are they going to fit?

~ Pauline Calf

I don’t divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don’t. I divide the world into learners and non-learners.

~ Benjamin Barber

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

~ Jean de La Bruyere

Ignorance of the law excuses no man Not that all men know the law, but because ’tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

~ John Selden

We learn to love that to which we give our time.

~ Anonymous

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I dont believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they cant find them, make them.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

~ Warren G. Bennis

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