The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already.
-- Leonard Tolstoy
It is easier to remember things together than alone.
-- Rachel Held Evans
The time it takes to engage with ideas — whether factual or fictional, emotional or intellectual, accurate or inaccurate, efficient or inefficient — might strike some as a drag. But the time given to working through those ideas, adopting and adapting, developing or discarding, changes our minds, changes us. It’s not about the wisdom we glean. It’s about what wisdom we grow.
-- Joel Miller
The most powerful determinate of who you are is inside you.
-- Dr Carey, Educated
Prior 4 Observations (from Others).