Susan Cooper (1935) English fantasy writer
Source: The Dark Is Rising (1965-1977), The Dark Is Rising (1973), Chapter 3 “The Sign-Seeker” (p. 36)
“Nothing is certain—that is the first lesson.”
— Paolo Bacigalupi, book The Windup Girl
Source: The Windup Girl (2009), p. 67
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Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
Student Loans
1980s–1990s, Is Reality Optional? (1993)
Source: Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays
Robert Rosen (1934–1998) American theoretical biologist
Robert Rosen (2013), Essays on Life Itself Chapter 18
Kurt Vonnegut book A Man Without a Country
A close paraphrase of this (beginning "Do not use...") is repeated in a commencement address at Cloves Hall, 27 April 2007, as reprinted in Armageddon in Retrospect
A Man Without a Country (2005)
“But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.”
Jonathan Franzen book How to Be Alone
Source: How to Be Alone
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
“They do.”
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 9, "Orm Embar" (Ged and Arren)
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Conversations with Einstein by Alexander Moszkowski (1971), p. 69 http://books.google.com/books?id=_D3wAAAAIAAJ&q=%22first+lessons+should+contain+nothing+but+what%22#search_anchor. This is just Moszkowski's English translation of a statement he attributed to Einstein in his 1922 book Einstein, Einblicke in seine Gedankenwelt, p. 77 http://books.google.com/books?id=6zHPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA77#v=onepage&q&f=false: "Was die Physik betrifft, fuhr Einstein fort, so darf für den ersten Unterricht gar nichts in Frage kommen, als das Experimentelle, anschaulich-Interessante. Ein hübsches Experiment ist schon an sich oft wertvoller, als zwanzig in der Gedankenretorte entwickelte Formeln." As Moszkowski makes clear in the original German text, this "quotation" is a paraphrasing of his conversation with Einstein. <br class="br">Attributed in posthumous publications
“Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
“Today, life will offer me many lessons. I will learn nothing.”
John S. Hall (1960) Poet, author, singer, lawyer
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Quotes from Daily Negations (2007)
