Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
AristotleRead
Wonder implies the desire to learn.
Interpretation
Wonder drives curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge.
This quote by Aristotle emphasizes that a sense of wonder is a fundamental catalyst for learning and intellectual growth. When we are intrigued by the world around us, we are motivated to seek answers, explore deeper, and acquire knowledge, which is essential to personal and societal development.
In practice
In an educational seminar about fostering curiosity in students.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.
For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.
We have to allow ourselves the freedom to make mistakes, including cultural mistakes, in our first drafts. I believe it's okay to get cultural details wrong in your first draft. It's okay if stereotypes emerge. It just means that your experience is limited, that you're human.
Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.
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