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John W. Gardner Quotes


Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Lyndon Johnson.
John William Gardner, (October 8, 1912–February 16, 2002) was Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Lyndon Johnson. He was also President of the Carnegie Corporation and the founder of two influential national U.S. organizations: Common Cause and Independent Sector. He authored books on improving leadership in American society and other subjects. He was also the founder of two prestigious fellowship programs, The White House Fellowship and The John Gardner Fellowship at Stanford University and U.C. Berkeley. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964. In 1966 Gardner was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.

Here are some famous quotes by John W. Gardner.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

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To sensible men every day is a day of reckoning.

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History never looks like history when you are living through it.

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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

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One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

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It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

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History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy and it always feels uncomfortable.

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Art gropes it stalks like a hunter lost in the woods listening to itself and to everything around it unsure of itself waiting to pounce.

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Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

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John Milton called his school Christ College 'a stony-hearted stepmother'. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

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If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities then every business office government agency golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.

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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.