This post is a collection of previously unused quotes from notebook #135 (3.4.24 to 5.4.24). There are 7 quotes listed below alphabetically by last name.
Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472, humanist)
"There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect." (AZQuotes.com)
Robert Audi (1941-now, philosopher)
"One is never just a teacher: one is always - even if not consciously - and advocate of a point of view, a critic of certain positions..." (AZQuotes.com)
Pierre Bayle (1647-1706, philosopher)
"Reason is like a runner who doesn't know that the race is over..." (Reply to the Question of a Provincial, 1703)
Erasmus (1466-1536, humanist)
"A constant element of enjoyment must be mingled with our studies, so that we think of learning as a game rather than a form of drudgery, for no activity can be continued for long if it does not to some extent afford pleasure to the participant." (Letter to Christian Northoff, 1497)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940, novelist)
"...the test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." (The Crack-Up, 1936)
Paulo Freire (1921-1997, philosopher)
"Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students." (Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1968)
Haruki Murakami (1949-now, novelist)
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." (Norwegian Wood, 1987)
