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This classmate told me that Plato drove this idea home in his dialogue Euthydemus, in which Socrates puts down the Sophists, claiming that a man learns more by "playing" with ideas in his leisure time that by sitting in a classroom. And Plato's successor, that world champion of pleasure, Epicurus, believed in a simple yet elegant connection between learning and happiness: the entire purpose of education was to attune the mind and sense to the pleasures of life.


Daniel Klein


#education

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.


Douglas Adams


#ground #how #learning #miss #throw

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.


Aristophanes


#cities #foes #friends #high #learn

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.


Michael Marino


#learning #love #reading #love

The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like the profits made by banks,' he went on. 'This is evil, I mean, the acquisition of enormous fortunes without work, as it used to be with the spirit monopolists. Only the form has changed. Le roi est mort, vive le roi! Hardly were the monopolies abolished before railways and banks appeared: just another way of making money without work.


Leo Tolstoy


#banks #earnings #labor #leo-tolstoy #monopolies

I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.


Esther Williams


#bonus #cents #cost #counted #day

I remember loving pencils. I was fond of paper. I loved the small of textbooks. I loved the way the light from a desk lamp was bright on a page. I loved the smell of fresh-cut grass. It was a thing everybody loved, but there was no shame in being that much like everybody else, in sharing that.


Frederick Barthelme


#love-of-teaching #love

I saw that he was looking anxious. 'I thought you weren't coming.' As he spoke, he grasped my hand. And if the sight of him had not quite restored the magic, the touch of him most certainly did. 'You're not wishing yourself some place else, Mary?


Jennifer Paynter


#earnestness #fear #hope #jane-austen #jennifer-paynter

Remember when your curiosity inspired your investigative mind to explore and learn… you weren’t bogged down with resentment, cynicism, and emotional baggage… just think about how great it would be to return to that mindset of unencumbered learning and adventurous living… you are just one choice away from that life… choose to let go of the infertile past… go live your adventure!


Steve Maraboli


#curiosity #inspirational #learning #life #experience

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.


Donald Rumsfeld


#agree #been #before #colin #ever






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