“Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.”

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 116

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Catholic bishop 1840–1916

F. Matthias Alexander (1869–1955) Australian actor

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“I have after years of thinking on the subject come to the conviction that work is the only instrument of effective education. It may sometimes be manual work, at others, non-manual work.”

Zakir Hussain (politician) (1897–1969) 3rd President of India

In p. 14.
Uniqueness of Zakir Husain and His Contributions (1997)

“I have after years of thinking on the subject come to the conviction that work is the only instrument of effective education. It may sometimes be manual work and sometimes non-manual work. Although it is work alone that can educate, I have also come to the conviction by long observation and experience that all work does not educate.”

Zakir Hussain (politician) (1897–1969) 3rd President of India

Source: Philosophy of Education, p. 88.

“A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.”

John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States

14 November 1760
1750s, Diaries (1750s-1790s)

“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in the felicity of lighting on good education.”

Plutarch book Moralia

Moralia, Of the Training of Children
Variant: The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

“The term division of labor has, from long usage, become associated in the public mind with manual processes. But productive labor is, in general, both manual and mental and just as there may be division of manual labor so there may be division of mental labor or division of thought. Modern productive methods tend constantly to separate mental labor from manual labor and then to subdivide each into smaller and smaller parts. The subdivision of manual labor is greatly furthered, as has been seen, by the extended use of tools. Subdivision of mental labor on the other hand is hastened by an increase in the amount of knowledge and mental development necessary to successfully perform the work in hand. Thus the mental labor of designing machinery is performed largely apart from the actual production; and this mental labor has become very closely specialized as the scientific basis of engineering has grown. This process of subdivision is greatly hastened in both manual and mental operations by increased quantity since this, of itself, enables the manager to avail himself of the inherent advantages of division of labor already discussed.”

Dexter S. Kimball (1865–1952) American engineer

Source: Principles of industrial organization, 1913, p. 48

“Hopelessness is the root of anxiety, mental illness, and depression. It is the source of all misery and the cause of all addiction.”

Mark Manson book Everything Is Fucked

“All of these credited for righteousness, going back from Abraham to the first man, could be described as Christians in fact if not in name, without exceeding the truth. For the name means that the Christian, through the knowledge and teaching of Christ, excels in self-control and righteousness, in disciplines and virtue, and in the confession of the one and only God over all, and in all this they showed no less zeal than we.”

Eusebius of Caesarea book Church History

1.4
Ecclesiastical History

“Do you see? There exists a kind of knowledge that is without love. It does not purify the psyche in any way, but kills it, as it lacks the love that is the head, the body, and very root of all virtue.”

Gregory Palamas (1296–1359) Monk and archbishop

Source: Holy Hesychia: The Stillness that Knows God, p. 33

“Best gift of all
The knowledge how to die; next, death compelled.”
Scire mori sors prima viris, sed proxima cogi.

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia

Book IX, line 211 (tr. E. Ridley).
Pharsalia

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