The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn, but to unlearn.

The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn, but to unlearn.

The green retreats
Of Academus.

The green retreats
Of Academus.

The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the read more

The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting."

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.

I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.

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.

The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.

The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.

Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them
that seek learning.

Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them
that seek learning.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn read more

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.