Nothing is better for a person than silence

Page 24. Nothing is better for a person than silence. Silence is the key to wisdom, spirituality, and morality. Silence insists that one must listen far more than one speaks. Silence prevents one from saying foolish or hurtful things. Not learning, but doing is the main thing. A persons life will be a valuated by their deeds, not their intentions. The ultimate goal is proper action, to attain that goal one must first study so as to know what the proper action entails

— from Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit) · Koren Pirkei Avot

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The remedy is to question everything, to pass every claim through a sieve and lodge nothing in your head on mere authority and trust. And never forget the point of all of it: it is not the learning itself that is crucial, but the actions the learning brings about — not study but practice is the main thing. [Here is a place for my own story of school — and I will say a little of it plainly, because you should know your grandfather was no natural scholar.] I grew up on the third floor of a nursing home, homeschooled, with almost no other children around; I went into high school at a yeshiva when I was only ten, fighting just to be allowed to play ball with boys twice my age. — Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit)

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