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The great end of life is not knowledge but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from undigested learning.
— Thomas Henry Huxley, Technical Education (1877)

2w ago

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

4w ago

The mind itself is the seat of action. We do not act because we think, but we think because we act.

5mo ago

themarginalian.org

Diseases of the Will: Neuroscience Founding Father Santiago Ramón y Cajal on the Six Psychological Flaws That Keep the Gifted from Living Up to Their Gift

No one would deny the fact that he who knows and acts is the one who counts, not he who knows and falls asleep. We render a tribute of respect to those who add original work to a library, and withhold it from those who carry a library around in their head.

5mo ago

The task of life is not so much to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

5mo ago

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the anguish of action.

6mo ago

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

6mo ago

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.

6mo ago

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

6mo ago

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