“Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.”
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.