“I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.”

Source: Brodie's Report

Virtual Meetings
Source: Virtual Online Meeting with Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Auxiliary from Germany https://www.alislam.org/press-release/over-100-members-of-majlis-khuddam-ul-ahmadiyya-germany-have-honour-of-virtual-meeting-with-head-of-ahmadiyya-muslim-community/

Source: The Montessori Method (1912), Ch. 5 : Discipline, p. 100.
Context: The peril of servilism and dependence lies not only in that "useless consuming of life," which leads to helplessness, but in the development of individual traits which indicate all too plainly a regrettable perversion and degeneration of the normal man. I refer to the domineering and tyrannical behaviour with examples of which we are all only too familiar. The domineering habit develops side by side with helplessness. It is the outward sign of the state of feeling of him who conquers through the work of others. Thus it often happens that the master is a tyrant toward his servant. It is the spirit of the task-master toward the slave.

Life Without Principle (1863)
Context: It is so hard to forget what it is worse than useless to remember! If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain-brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town-sewers. There is inspiration, that gossip which comes to the ear of the attentive mind from the courts of heaven. There is the profane and stale revelation of the bar-room and the police court. The same ear is fitted to receive both communications. Only the character of the hearer determines to which it shall be open, and to which closed. I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality.

Washington Post (September 10, 1981).

Source: Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923), p. 212

Life lessons from Narayana Murthy (2013)