"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant."

Depree, Max on responsibility
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"In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence."

Merton, Thomas on responsibility
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"One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion."

Weber, Max on politics   

"What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real."

Tagore, Rabindranath on art
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"Mind is the great lever of all things."

Webster, Daniel on mind   

"Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst."

Lin Yu-tang on mind
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"You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it."

Morrison, Alex on imagination   

"The chief enemy of creativity is good taste."

Picasso, Pablo on creativity
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"Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts."

Man, Paul De on image   

"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."

France, Anatole on education
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"The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy."

Pound, Ezra on image   

"Education is the mother of leadership."

Willkie, Wendell L. on leadership
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"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."

Disraeli, Benjamin on facts
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"Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken."

Russell, Bertrand on experts
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"Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on extremes and extremists   

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."

Einstein, Albert on facts
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"It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean."

Raleigh, Sir Walter on extremes and extremists   

"Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations."

DeVos, Richard M. on expectation
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"Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming."

Dowell, Coleman on existence   

"Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right."

Gladstone, William E. on ethics   

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"No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style."

Wilde, Oscar on ethics
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"Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?"

Will, George F. on ethics   

"A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes."

Bernard, Claude on facts   

"People can refute your facts, but never your feelings."

Bower, Sharon Anthony on facts   

"I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing -- a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil."

Carlyle, Thomas on facts   

"Now, what I want is, facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!"

Dickens, Charles on facts   

"The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition."

Clark, Richard on facts   

"The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists."

Masse, Marcel on experts   

"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."

Locke, John on experience   

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"The only source of knowledge is experience."

Einstein, Albert on experience
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"Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself."

Dewey, John on education
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"When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course."

Drucker, Peter F. on education   

"Education can no longer be the sole property of the state."

Drucker, Peter F. on education   

"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one"

Forbes, Malcolm S. on education
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"Education is the art of making man ethical."

Hegel, Georg on education
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"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell on education
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"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be."

King Jr. Martin Luther on extremes and extremists
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"Education is too important to be left solely to the educators."

Keppel, Francis on education
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"The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education."

La Bruyere, Jean De on education   

"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge."

Mann, Horace on education