#lea

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please. ↗

— Louis Nizer

#always #books #counselors #disinterested #hand

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#diligent #forgetting #learning #must #otherwise

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#been #culture #established #expense #forgetting

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#associate #belief #conscious #continuance #existence

I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#crisis #hope #i #japan #knowledge

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. ↗

— Novalis

#enjoyment #height #learning #pleasurable

You won't catch me giving clear lectures. ↗

— Donald Norman

#clear #giving #lectures #me #won

Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#batman #clearly #culture #does #else

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#bright #empty #fill #hole #interesting

He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce. ↗

— Xenophon

#least #most #pleasure #requires #sauce