#ed

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#schooling #university #education

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#soul #education

Indeed, it's not a stretch to say that most voters no longer choose their representatives; instead, representatives choose their voters. ↗

— Barack Obama

#dreams

Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#existence #horror #knowledge #western #knowledge

She pauses several treads from the bottom, listening, waiting; she is again possessed (it seems to be getting worse) by a dream-like feeling, as if she is standing in the wings, about to go onstage and perform in a play for which she is not appropriately dressed, and for which she has not adequately rehearsed. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#domestic-life #loved-ones #numb-depression #preparation-to-face-the-day #putting-on-an-act

You're absolved," I tell him. He brings his eyes back up to mine. There's no fucking way he knows what that word means. That's a word I dream someone will say to me. So I put it in his language. "You're free. ↗

— Hannah Moskowitz

#friendship-and-love #letting-go #loss #dreams

I am running in God's speed. The Almighty trusts me to rule the world on my own, even He speed up or slow down the things, because all I know is just running as fast as I can to catch up my dreams; the gifts that He prepared for me :) ↗

— Saras Sadanti

#gifts #god #inspirational #speed #dreams

More recently, books, especially paperbacks, have been printed in massive and inexpensive editions. For the price of a modest meal you can ponder the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, the origin of species, the interpretation of dreams, the nature of things. Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#carl #sagan #science #seeds #dreams

To succeed at anything, one must have a desire to dream of things some would think is impossible. ↗

— Ellen J. Barrier

#imagine #succeed #dreams

نشبه لإيه؟؟ نشبه لأي إتنين يحبوا و ميقولوش! نشبه لإيه؟ لإلي خايفين يحلموا ف مبيعيشوش و ملقوش طريق يتقابلوا فيه..نشبه لإيه؟ نشبه حكايات عيشتها..أو حلم ناقص و إنتهى.. نشبه حاجات مش وقتها..أو جرح متعود عليه نشبه لإيه؟! ↗

— مصطفى إبراهيم

#حلم #dreams