Edwin Boring Quotes

Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire.

Edwin Boring

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• We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Self-Love

• I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Country
  • Think
  • Running

• These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Up
  • Time
  • Best

• Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Action
  • Little
  • Effect

• I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Person
  • Failures
  • Negatives

• We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Clock

• I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Play
  • Model

• Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Interested
  • Gossips

• My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Friend
  • Positive

• I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.

  

  Karla Souza
  • People
  • Work
  • Remember

• I feel better all day if I start off by eating healthy. Breakfast is simple: multigrain toast with natural peanut butter, oatmeal, yogurt, fruit, or healthy cereal.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Day
  • Simple
  • Breakfast

• You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Society
  • Faith
  • Humanity

• I’m not a particularly ideological person. There’s things, some values I feel passionately about.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Person
  • Values
  • Ideological

• Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • World
  • Understanding

• Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute; Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Bitter

• I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.

  

  Larry Wall

• The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.

  

  John D. Rockefeller
  • Good
  • Money

• Write every day. Make writing a part of your life, but also don't be afraid of learning from others because I think you can. I still try to think of myself as a beginner because that way I can keep on learning.

  

  Kimberly Willis Holt
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Learning

• Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Mother
  • Night
  • Fear

• It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Knowledge
  • Learning
  • inspirational

• Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Ideas

• Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire.

  

  Edwin Boring
  • Fear
  • Learning
  • Information