Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Always make the choice to learn. What Princeton taught me was whatever mess you are studying, pull a thread with great persistence 'til you have clarity of thought. Princeton taught me how to solve a problem. How to think - that's what we pull out of this place.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.

Focusing on the right question is very different from having the right answers.

History makes one wise, but not competent to solve concrete problems.

The importance of all education lies far more in the training of minds than in any facts which may be absorbed, for trained minds will ascertain the facts as they need to know them. Having learned to reason and to weigh the information they discover, people with such minds will be more nearly educated than any amount of cramming of definite facts into their heads will make them.

Life is not a theoretical problem to be solved in class.

You always need to be curious and study.

President Obama is like a lost man who refuses to ask for directions. That's because he has never worked in the real world with people who create real jobs. He operates on theories and an ideology that is incapable of achieving his goals.

Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.

We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

I've learned to use big words. Because I'm an avid reader, I can prove myself as a smart and diligent person.

Perhaps more than English or history, STEM subjects require an enormous amount of foundational learning before students can become competent.

You have to draw on a fair amount of experience in order to be able to put ideas together.

Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before the digital mode dominates their reading. The immediacy and volume of information should not be confused with true knowledge.

It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid.

I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.” “Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.

Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt to take the easier course, and consider the formula not the fact as the physical reality.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.