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If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out read more
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable read more
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt.
[Lat., Extremae est dementiae discere dediscenda.]
It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt.
[Lat., Extremae est dementiae discere dediscenda.]
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are read more
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
The languages, especially the dead,
The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,
The arts, at least read more
The languages, especially the dead,
The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,
The arts, at least all such as could be said
To be the most remote from common use,
In all these he was much and deeply read.
Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them read more
Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game
