Data without generalization is just gossip.

Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.

The pencil is mightier than the pen.

Good is a noun rather than an adjective.

Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive

If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.

Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything -- from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.