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"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."

"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned."

"There are some lessons you can never find in a classroom, hence you need to learn from every person and every situation that you encounter."

"Vice can be learnt even without a teacher."

"What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown."

"To learn how to swim, observe fish; how to hunt, observe lions; how to work, observe bees, and how to live, observe sages."

"The most important thing about the quest for knowledge is that it should never end."

"All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner."
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"The world is swirling with so many mysteries and secrets that nobody will ever track down all of them. But with a book you can stay up very late, reading until all the secrets are clear to you. The questions of the world are hidden forever, but the answers in a book are hiding in plain sight."


"There's nothing wrong with athletics, but they shouldn't get in the way of your schoolwork."


"One of the greatest myths in the world - & the phrase 'greatest myths' is just a fancy way of saying 'big fat lies' -- is that troublesome things get less & less troublesome if you do them more & more. People say this myth when they are teaching children to ride bicycles, for instance, as though falling off a bicycle & skinning your knee is less troublesome the fourteenth time you do it than it is the first time. The truth is that troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them, & that you should avoid doing them unless they are absolutely urgent."


"Tears are curious things, for like earthquakes or puppet shows they can occur at any time, without any warning and without any good reason."


"In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening."


"A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn't hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead."
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