Archives: Quotes

  • It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper understanding.

  • My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

  • Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn.

  • I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

  • Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

  • Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.

  • Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.

  • Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.

  • The wise man’s home is the universe.

  • Who lives sees much. Who travels sees more.