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"Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient."
"What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse."
"Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival."
"Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only."
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him."
"Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old."
"I am the most travelled of all my contemporaries; I have extended my field of enquiry wider than anybody else, I have seen more countries and climes, and have heard more speeches of learned men. No one has surpassed me in the composition of lines, according to demonstration, not even the Egyptian knotters of ropes, or geometers."
"The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action"
"This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present."
"When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves."
"In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup."
"The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?"
"If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something."
"We teachers make the road, others will make the journey."
"Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide"
"The best is the enemy of the good."
"I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!"
"I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!"
"I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up."
"The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery."
