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a man who is always living in the midst of these studies and labours does not perceive when old age creeps upon him

if it has in store any of what I may call the food of study and philosophy, nothing can be pleasanter than an old age of leisure

It’s also about knowing what you know and what you don’t know. It’s about being open to people and ideas.

A boy of spirit may acquire a previous and practical experience of the world; and his playfellows may be the future friends of his heart or his interest.

The study of conditions will prove an education in itself and a stimulus to invention.

Yet it is only intelligence and sympathy that can bring us closer to the source of human suffering, and teach us the ultimate way out of it.

The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.

Every thought, every word is impressed upon it and carried out in amazing detail.

Life is a mirror, and we find only ourselves reflected in our associates.

Man should make an art of thinking.

As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

The whole point depends upon his being at once humble enough to wonder, and haughty enough to defy.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

With the first word I used intelligently, I learned to live, to think, to hope.

The hand is my feeler with which I reach through isolation and darkness and seize every pleasure, every activity that my fingers encounter.

With the dropping of a little word from another's hand into mine, a slight flutter of the fingers, began the intelligence, the joy, the fullness of my life.

What to the intellect is old and worn-out is perennially young and fresh to the heart; curiosity is insatiable, but love is never tired.

Entomology extends the limits of being in a new direction, so that I walk in nature with a sense of greater space and freedom.

Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children.

Nature will bear the closest inspection; she invites us to lay our eye level with the smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Every artist does something more than copy Nature; more comes out in his account than goes into the original experience.

Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession.

Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process.

In final account, then, not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates.