“Everyone thinks that teachers are automatically above the taught The teachers are the taught.”
“The greatest learner in the world is one who can entertain perspective and then drop it.”
“Curiosity is good, but creativity is greater.”
“It is mathematics which reveals every genuine truth, for it knows every hidden secret, and bears the key to every subtlety of letters; whoever then has the effrontery to study physics while neglecting mathematics, should know from the start that he will never make his entry into the portals of wisdom.”
“It isn t a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state s goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government s propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They ll fasten the chains to their own ankles.”
“The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps.”
“True success is achieved by stretching oneself, learning to feel comfortable being uncomfortable.”
“On athleticism, God knows no favor. It seems rather he is in the business of teaching winners how to lose and losers how to win.”
“Adams has done a bit of everything, from radio to television to designing computer games. Not all of them worked out. “These are life’s little learning experiences,” he said. “You know what a learning experience is? A learning experience is one of those things that says, ‘You know that thing you just did? Don’t do that.’ “At the end of all this being-determined-to-be-a-jack-of-all-trades, I think I’m better off just sitting down and putting a hundred thousand words in a cunning order.” Adams writes “slowly and painfully.” “People assume you sit in a room, looking pensive and writing great thoughts,” he said. “But you mostly sit in a room looking panic-stricken and hoping they haven’t put a guard on the door yet.”
“Everyone is doing the best they can with what they know, and we are all here to learn and grow.”
“We should learn from flowers, earthly stars which spend their entire lives shining, shining and growing despite all the difficulties they encounter. They know how to listen and understand the whispers of time, for it is an eternal friend that teaches the importance of friendship and sparkling hope.”
“First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play.”
“Whate er I read to her. I ll plead for you As for my patron, stand you so assured, As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful words Than you, unless you were a scholar, sir. O this learning, what a thing it is!”
“PhD is possible at any age!”
“Since then I’ve come to believe you don’t always have to use things you love, and it’s not always so practical to be so practical. Now that I’ve grown up, I realize that all that delicious dilettantism pays its way as much as any degree in medicine or engineering, by making me remember every day—whenever I pick up a book or watch the Science Channel or try to read a map of Asia for no particular reason—that life is amazing and there is no end to the wonder of it.”
“Wisdom is learning what to overlook.”
“I have travel to sacred places through the pages of books.”