Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

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"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."

- Thomas Szasz

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"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily."

- Thomas Szasz

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"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates."

- Thomas Szasz

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- Helen Hayes

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- Mahatma Gandhi

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- Vince Gironda

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"I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it."

- Vincent van Gogh

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