“If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons.” IfsKnowsDesireUnderstandingLessonsHighestAdvantageOneselfDelightHumbleValuableObscurityTrue Understanding Author:Thomas a Kempis
“For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.” MenDesireFightingArmsLessonsArmyEvery ManArrangementsSequelsDesire To Learn Book:The Dialogues of Plato Source: The Dialogues of Plato
“I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read at a school for girls we call the Amigas. Affection, and mischief, caused me to follow her, and when I observed how she was being taught her lessons I was so inflamed with the desire to know how to read, that deceiving - for so I knew it to be - the mistress, I told her that my mother had meant for me to have lessons too. ... I learned so quickly that before my mother knew of it I could already read.” KnowsYearsSchoolMotherDesireGirlThreeKnow HowTaughtLessonsAffectionDeterminedThree YearsDeceivingEldersMistressMischiefThree Year Olds Author:Juana Inés de la Cruz