#elves

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#crazy #knowledge #learn #takes #taught

Of course there are people who would like to eat breakfast without the screams of toddlers all around them, but those people should get over themselves and stop being stuck up and idiotic. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#being #breakfast #course #eat #eat breakfast

[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#oneness #others #ourselves #viewpoints #forgiveness

We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#go #let go #life #our #precious

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#human #literature #men #must #off

We should not pour muck on ourselves. ↗

— Leonid I. Brezhnev

#ourselves #pour #should

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing. ↗

— Janet Erskine Stuart

#best #essentially #ourselves #remain #same

We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that. ↗

— Jennifer Saunders

#amateur #bit #charm #first #involve

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have. ↗

— John Holt

#educational #experience #find #free #kinds

The commission members themselves were never briefed on Able Danger. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#able danger #briefed #commission #danger #members