“Learn of the skilful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Turns out that life can throw you in any kind of a situation, and you never know what type of knowledge might ever come in handy. But when it does, you feel happier than ever.”
Source: The Prison of Deviants
“To pass from understanding less to understanding more by your own intellectual effort in reading is something like pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.”
Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“Growth requires the acceptance of the most uncomfortable truth.”
Source: Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability
“In the matter of experiencing and learning, take your time. You are unlearning years of things that had nothing to do with you, and learning new things that have everything to do with who you are trying to be.”
Source: Self-care is the Best Care: Check in With Yourself
“If you can see it, you can be it. If you have inspiring partnership to support you on the way. If you're always learning and you're giving back so that others can learn from you too, then you're always growing and moving forwards.”
“Si el cráneo fuera lo que parece - un recipiente semiesférico, una cavidad, un reservorio -, el aprendizaje sería una manera de ir rellenando un espacio vacío. Pero ocurre algo distinto. Es posible imaginar que cada nueva impresión cava otro hueco, lastima otro tanto la materia informe, nos vacía un poco más. Nacimos llenos de algo - de materia gris, de agua, de nosotros mismos -, y en todos se está produciendo, en cada instante, la alquimia lenta de la erosión. Llevamos una caverna en proceso encima del cuello, pedazos que serán pedacería.”
Source: Papeles falsos
“As we practice life-long learning, never accept ignorance in yourself, but do tolerate it in others.”
Source: Healthy Thinking Habits: Seven Attitude Skills Simplified
“There was no way Penny would go to House and let Sam see her. That would ruin everything. Sam would take one look at her and be like, "Yikes, never mind.”
Source: Emergency Contact
“What are we but a series of evolutions?' she said gaily, spearing another shell. 'Each one a better incarnation. One day you'll be a person who eats snails.”
Source: Delphine Jones Takes a Chance